Since the last time I blogged? Really?? I am so very sorry!
Time flies when you're having fun, right?
I used to blog on Wednesdays…then my Wednesdays got busy…then I…well…stopped. Whoops...
Pretty much every Friday I leave language class at 1:00 thinking, "Yeessss!! It's finally FRIDAY!!!!" Then, all of a sudden, I think, "Wait, how is it already Friday!?" My time in Korea has been the weirdest combination of slow and fast that I have ever experienced. My days are full and sometimes seem to disappear. [Disclaimer: In no way do I want to wish my time in Korea away!] But...there are other times that minutes creep by and I just want to move on to the next thing or just get something over with or for it to be the weekend. Recently though, everything seems to be going by rather quickly!
빨리빨리!!!! 빨리 [bbal-li] means fast or quickly or HURRY UP and is a very common word in Korea. Koreans love [the idea of] being fast.
I guess that's how life usually is...a slow/fast combo that seems to somehow speed up as time passes
Last week, Thomas did an excellent job explaining his weekly schedule. While mine is not quite the same, it is similar: school every morning [Monday-Friday], meeting with my 도우미 twice a week [my Korean buddy who is so very patient in helping me along in my Korean language learning process], preparing for and teaching English to elementary and middle schoolers, washing dishes, serving some rice, studying and doing Korean homework, preparing for and leading Bible studies, going to an English reading and conversation group at a nearby library [with a group of great women+one man], running, analyzing and processing things with my fellow K-YAVs [Anna and Thomas], taekwondo [longer post later!], Firefly, [thinking about, praying about, anxietying over, thinking about, praying about, writing, and finally delivering] Time for Young Disciples [it only happens about once a month, and I should
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