Wednesday, February 26, 2009

hey guys!! i haven't written a blog since December! i can't believe it! lol my bad! I can't believe that it is almost March and i will be leaving in 4 short months. it's going to get soooo hot here! i will be READY to leave! i have been here for 8 months and met some pretty awesome people! it will be hard for me to leave my new friends behind. i am going to miss A LOT of you! for those of you who don't know... i just started a new job because i was let go from my other one. the reason was lame and shady; they apparently just wanted me gone. so i started a new job at a montessori kindergarten. it is soooo cute! the kids are adorable and it's a lot of fun. i went to orientation today and i'll go again tomorrow. on friday i am going up to seoul/osan to see some friends! then on monday morning (really early) i will bored the train to Busan and hop on a ferry again and head to japan. i have to go there so that my visa can be renewed. i will stay there for 24 hrs and then go to the immigration office and then hop on another ferry back to busan and then to seoul! starting next wednesday, i'll be working at my new job! i can't wait!

well, it's 1am and i'm going to bed! love u guys! xoxoxoxo

December 1, 2008

I can't believe how fast this year went by! I have been here just about 5 months and wonder why it's going so fast...This month I start paying on my school loans!! woohoo! lol NOT!

Hey, this weekend was AMAZING! If you didn't know about it, I cooked thanksgiving dinner for my friends in korea. I had some help with cooking and cleaning. About 30 people ended up coming by and hanging out! It was good times! It was kind of crowded at times, but it was a lot of fun! I would do it again in a heartbeat! Thanks to all of you who came, and sorry for those of you who couldn't!

Well, I'm gonna get started watchin some shows I missed last week! Talk to ya later!!

Monday, November 17, 2008

Hey guys! today was so busy. i woke up and went to a lady's house from my bible study, on camp walker. there, me and 2 other ladies watched some little ones while the mommies were able to spend the afternoon at the korean opera (woohoo...) oh how i missed watching kids! i totally miss my nephews and niece, but especially the Newberry family back home!! It was so much fun to play with the little ones and goof off with the older ones. this wed for bible study i volunteered to help with the little ones cuz they were short handed this week. i can't wait!

after this i went to work. then after work i met RJ (nerida's son) and Nerida for dinner. tonight was RJ's last night in daegu. He's leaving tomorrow to go back to Austraila. dinner was goooood, but too exensive for my taste, but delish, nontheless...

so just for the record...i bought some really warm and comfortable shoes on base!!! there's a pic of them on here!! i'll wear them with pants once i get my pants taken in!!! i've lost 13 lbs since i've been here!!!! woohoo!! they got little brown furry spheres on the tops!!! lol CUTE!!

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Today, i woke up with my tonsils huge golfballs. my fever kicked in during bible study, which made me have chills. i went to the doctor earlier and he gave me antibiotics for tonsillitis.. we'll see if it works! who know... this is what the pack looks like..i wonder if it's really only vitamins.. lol the doctor visit only cost 3,500 Won (about 3 bucks) and then the same price for the pills...

going to get some rest. love you guys. g'night

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

When all ELSE fails and you're totally broke... one thing is always clear....MAC n CHEESE time!! payday is friday!!! i can just taste the base food i'll be purchasing soon!! yay for having gracious friends on base that will help me survive while i'm in korea!!! love you!

Nothing is new in my life. Work is fine. My sheets are amazing! (thanks mom)

I still need a jacket, but since I had to pay for my computer to be repaired, I had to wait to buy a jacket till the coming paycheck... So lookout for my new korean jacket when I get home! I'll be sporting the korean style!! ye-uh!

As you are "celebrating" Veterans Day in the States, we are "celebrating" Pepero Day in Korea. A pepero is a cookie stick dipped in chocolate (some are also dipped in chocolate AND nuts!!). On November 11 each year, young people share pepero sticks with people they like. It is a lot like Valentine's day, but just with this one kind of snack. Basically, it meant I had a room full of kids on sugar-highs from eating peperos all day. A couple of my students brought me peperos. (DALENE...i stole this from ur blog. it's exactly what I would have typed... :) love you! thanks)

I'm tired. I got Bible study in the morning! g'night

love you guys!!!

Thursday, November 6, 2008

so i thought i should tell you guys a story about what happened on my home one night. i was hanging out with jiyoung and we were taking a cab back to my apt. we paid, got out and got to my stairs. well, i reached in my purse to get my keys, but realized my purse was STILL in the cab. i immediately took off down the street to TRY to catch the cab in case there was a red light. well, i had on my huge brown flipflops and couldn't run appropriately, so i took them off while running and booked it even faster! i got around the curve and there he was at the end of the street about to pick up another passenger. i finally yelled enough for them to hear me and he had my purse already in the front seat. i don't know what i would have done if he had really left. omg. that would have been so tragic! i wouldn't have had make-up or anything! lol BUT he didn't take off and i caught him... i just thought i'd share my huffin and puffin story to brighten ur day! i bet none of you have left ur purse in a cab and got it back! lol love you guys!

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!