Since my last post, the temperature has continued to drop...past cold...into frigid...way beyond "YOU HAVE GOT TO BE FREAKING KIDDING ME" and into "humm, it's in the positives today - why so warm?!?"
This week is the coldest week of winter so far. I'm really looking forward to the -13F wind chill outside. I have motivation each day to actually stay at school longer so as to avoid the icy cold. On a positive, the rarely right weather man is calling for snow again tomorrow. We shall see... About snow: at home, we watch as the snow quickly becomes mush and makes the ground ready for spring. Here, I watch as the snow becomes ice, the ice takes over the sidewalks, what is left of the snow becomes black from the dirty streets and the dump-trucks that come to haul it all away. I stopped for a minute to watch as a back-hoe scooped up large clumps of snow and put it in a truck to be hauled away. It did not make very much sense to me then, but when you expect more snow over the next few months, I guess it is called for. My apartment is still cold. Showers are something that I no longer look forward to. There is nothing worse than stepping out of the shower into cold air! How many layers I am wearing each day has stopped being funny and is now routine. The biggest change is that any temperature above 20F is starting to feel warm. It makes me think the summer is going to be brutal! Another positive - maybe - is that my school is taking my kids on a snow field trip. We are all going sledding at Seoul Land later this month. I can't tell you how excited I am to watch my kids play in the snow. Not so excited about the sledding. I have all of these mental images of my kids running over each other! We shall see.
I met some really great people this past weekend. A friend of Derek's from Seattle who lives in the southern part of Korea came up to visit and stayed with me for the weekend as my first official house guest. It was really nice to have someone in the apartment. Even better that she was a really encouraging and uplifting sister in Christ. Derek and I took Trish to the Museum of Korea (ehhh...), Itaewon to the Book Store, out for Thai food and back home to watch Two Weeks Notice. We woke up Sunday and went to Derek's church, Dongsan, in Ansan. While waiting for the service, we met Samantha, from Malawi/England. After a really good service, we all went to a great Nepalese Curry place for lunch/dinner. Ummmm vegetable curry and nannnnnnnnnn! It was great to get to know each other a bit better and hang out. I really enjoyed some of the new Korean friends that we made. Joey, (aka - pretty much the Korean version of Joey Tribiani from Friends) was the jokster of the day. He is the first English-speaking Korean I have met that can use scarcasm. It leaves me stumped on half of his jokes, but they were gooooood. Another thing about Joey. Joey spent 5 months in Tennessee studying. While there, he visited Atlanta and learned about some dawgs that called woof woof. Right in the middle of the bookstore, Joey starts "calling the dawgs!!!!" My jaw drops and I am in awe of this new friend who knows my dawgs. Derek eventually walked over and Joey and I celebrated our new bond by calling the dawgs together.
All in all, it was a great weekend!
On a not so great note, the teacher that was scheduled to replace Amanda has declined the position. We are now looking for another teacher to help with the tremendous workload that we have. I looked at a resume today from a girl from New Zealand. I plan to call her tomorrow and talk to her about teaching at my school. I really hope she works out as her resume was outstanding!
OUTSTANDING NEWS ALERT: I have pretty much decided that I am going to be staying in Korea an extra year. Will keep you posted on this as it develops. I have big plans for the time that I am going to be here. I am wanting to see a women's prayer/support group for foreign teachers and young English-speaking Korean women start up and running. I'm really praying for this now and would ask that you cover this desire in prayer as well.
Lastly, I want to leave you with the faithful and ever gracious Madea...she can offer you great relationship advice ;)
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