Monday, Novemeber 3, 2008

I can't believe that it's already the first Monday in November! I have almost been here for four months! It has gone by slow, but fast...if that makes ANY sense! I am currently at work on break for an hour and a half. I ordered some food from across the street and waiting on them to bring it to me! it's really good. it's called cheese donkkasa, which is pretty much a cheese pork cutlet, and also comes with some macaroni salad and some rice! It's delish. When they bring it, I'll add a pic.

So as most of you know, my computer crashed recently. Macs are not that easy to buy or get repaired here. I had to go downtown to find the store and it cost me 400,000Won to get it repaired...With today's exchange rate, it was about 285 USD (they just brought my food....so i'll put up a pic!). 285USD isn't bad i guess when you get a brand new hard drive and a new cd/dvd drive. I was fortunate enough to get the NEWER hard drive. It's like i bought the new version of the Macbook for 285bucks! I can do all the stuff the new Macbooks can do! Yay! What really stinks is that ALL the files/songs/pics on my computer are gone. so i have to start from scratch. So, be patient with pics. I'll be copying friends' albums and putting them on my comp! AND I needed a new key board, cuz mine was falling apart from the same when I dropped the comp. and I now have a keyboard that has Hangul (korean characters) on it! good times!

Another addition to my life is a Bible Study on Camp Walker (an army base in daegu). It's actually called PWOC. I heard about it through a friend and thought I'd check it out. I loved it! The women there are fantastic! They love the Lord and want to bring others closer to him! We picked the books/groups in which we wanted to study and I chose the book on "Discerning the Voice of God". I really didn't want to hear the voice of God at the time and I wanted to do the Beth Moore study, but at that moment I realized I HAD to do the Discerning the voice of God because I knew I NEEDED to do it. Did I make that confusing or did you understand? lol Since I didn't want to do it, I chose it, cuz I knew I needed to do it! :D I was suppose to go help at an orphanage today, but I overslept...poo. So I'll catch it next time. Our Bible study meets every Wed morning at 930 and we stop around 1145! My friend Dalene goes with me, and we're actually in the same group, so we can keep each other accountable! (Dalene is from Oklahoma and she works accross the street from me and we met through Alpha)

Halloween was amazing! I don't have many pics cuz I wasn't ready when all my friends were snapping pics, but oh well. Maybe I'll find some more on my friends' facebook pages! I dressed up as the "baby one more time" britney spears! THAT was a lot of fun! Needless to say, I didn't look QUITE as good as britney did, but i pulled off the catholic school girl look at least! :D My friends and I went downtown and hung out with all the other foreigners dressed up! I saw: Tommy Lee, the Hulk, a toilet, a dead fairy, gum on a shoe (alpha lol), MANY angels (dalene's was the best), ladybugs, bees, and TONS of other things! WE had fun!

Some of you don't know, so I will tell you...My Uncle, Timbo, was killed Friday in a hit n run. He was walking to work (which he does everyday), and someone hit him and they didn't find his body till after midnight. He had nothing but a phone # in his pocket so the police called it. It was his son's #. My cousin went down to see if he could identify the body since they didn't know who it was. They could only use a tatoo to identify him with. That's how bad his body was mangled. My cousin said that's my dad. So here I am separated from my family by thousands of miles...wishing I was there with them at a time like this. I didn't cry when I found out, although I teared up. I was just in shock. Well, yesterday my friend had said something about "if anything happens to me...patrick can have my ..., jiyoung can have my..., and roxie can have my..." it WAS really funny cuz of what he was talking about, but as soon as he said it, I started balling... I'm doing ok now. I called my dad's side of the family and talked with several of them through Skype, but it's just not the same. I wish I had the chump change to fly home.. lol but I don't. So I you guys back home and abroad to please pray for the healing of my family. My dad had the opportunity to lead my uncle to the Lord a thousand years ago, but he didn't live a God-fearing life. So our hope is to see him in heaven one day. Pray that God grabs the rest of my family!

i love you guys! talk to you soon!