2nd Week of teaching...

Well, here we go, I hope some of you have been keeping up. There is a lot of my everyday journeys that I am keeping out, not because it is private, but that it may seem insignificant to most people, but it is definitely a weird circumstance for me. Side note: I have been spelling definitely wrong for several years (and I am supposed to be a champion speller). Flabberghast!

Anyways, ok, this week was wonderful. I am getting to know the kids a lot better and they are always excited to see me, which gives me a warm fuzzy feeling every time. There are some difficult classes and a few difficult students, but all in all I love them and am looking forward to each new day with them. My most advanced class is a group of three girls, and they are sweet, respectful, smart, and I just taught them how to play spades and they love it!! Soon there will be a widespread Spades outbreak in Korea and I will be the one they can thank for it. I am such a catalyst for the insignificant things in life.

Each time I see my students I think of their future and where they will be when they are my age. What type of person will they be? Will they live life for Jesus? Will they be successful? I hope so, and I also pray that God will allow me a foothold into their lives where I can show them Jesus as much as I can, even though I am not in any means the most dynamic person for the job.

I am also getting to know some of the adults in my classes and they know that I am Christian, and that it is something very important to me. On Monday a 22 year old man(boy?) told me he didn't like Christians, but what he said he meant was that he didn't like religion. I asked if we could still be friends and he smiled and said yes. I am not going to make him a project or anything, but I am going to do the best I can to love him and make sure that he knows the truth of the gospel before this whole thing is done. Tonight I was able to share my heart with another man that is in one of my adult classes. He is an atheist, but he is still deeply concerned with the lack of morality that is sweeping Korea due to the West's influence. I told him how I lived and he expressed that I was the only young western man that he has ever met that has "conservative" values. I shared my testimony with him, as well as, the gospel and he was amazed! I hope I can still communicate God's love to him throughout this next year.

Pray for me people! I have a lot on my mind and God is opening up several doors for ministry. I feel totally empowered and I am ready to lay it all down and love the Korean people while I am here. My desire is for these people to have true and lasting communion with Jesus, and I am fully convinced that the Holy Spirit is moving amongst these people. God is gooooood people, and my trust in Him grows everyday. He will accomplish what His will demands!

First week teaching

So I finished my first week of teaching, and although I think it is going to be an amazing year with these kids, I still know that there will be some struggles. There is one class of very young kids that don't understand English very well, so I think they believe that what I say to them is "go crazy! you only live once, so be as wild as you possibly can", because that is exactly how they are. They are cute though, so I will let them live.

I am having a good time getting to know my fellow teachers and the people that have businesses in the same building as my school. Slowly and surely I am going to learn Korean, so that I can interact and build real relationships with these people, but for now it is just a lot of pointing and smiling.

The food here is the bomb biggity! I love it, it is way more healthy, its cheap, and it tastes good. What more can you ask for? Oh, well, certain foods also keep the yang up if ya know what I mean, wink. Not that I need that, but it is good to know.
I thought that I was poisoned yesterday, because I took a sip of my water bottle and it tasted like ammonia and made me feel dizzy and anxious for about two hours! Keep trying, but I am here to stay. Its going to take a lot more than that to pull this mountain down.

Yesterday I went out with a fellow teacher from Wisconsin, a guy named Donovan. We went to a really classy bar and ate some chicken mixed with vegetables and covered in a very spicy hot sauce. I made the mistake of ingesting the hottest pepper that has ever come near my mouth and my face was literally set on fire. I am black now. We talked about life and had a good ole time. Today I am going with him and my school's principal to look at some books. I hope to find a Korean grammar book to help me out, and I am also looking for some supplemental stuff for the Bible studies that I am going to be teaching...after this then my weekend will really start.