Not only is it in the United States of America but it will be in Tennessee!! Matthew will be working with a great school as a principal and teacher. It's a wonderful opportunity to grow and use the talents God has been equipping him with over these years.
It is a wonderful blessing that we can't even begin to express. We are excited to work for God and being in America and being closer to friends and family is a huge plus!
We've missed home so much that sometimes even our food starts to look like North America...
We have been going through our belongings here in Korea and sending some boxes home and throwing other things away. We are excited to think about having a place of our own...in the country! The school is set in a beautiful small-ish town area and from what we can see there's more green and blue than concrete. And that's what we want to see!
Moving will be fun and exciting, even if it will be in the heat of a TN summer.
This is a picture of how Koreans move to and from apartments. There is none of this up and down the stairs nonsense, instead they put this lift thing to the window and you put your stuff on and down it goes. I told my students that I'd never seen anything like that and they were shocked. "You mean you carry it from your apartment?" they asked in horror. I explain about elevators but that yes, we carry things. It was funny.
There are a million reasons why we are glad to be going home but first and foremost is family. Family and then friends, but there are friends who are family so they all get bunched together: familyfriends. We won't be close to everyone but we'll be able to call and visit more often and that does our hearts good.
On a somewhat humorous side here are some other reasons we are happy to go home:
1) I've begun to like onions in my food. Now, don't get me wrong, I still don't like them in all things, but I like them much more than before. This tends to happen to me, every time I move somewhere I add a food item to the things I like to eat. PA: vegetables. TN: Lettuce. KR: Onions. Who'd of thought?
These pictures are to prove my sincerity of what I've said. I actually cooked these onions and used them in my baking! I want to personally thank Auntie Em for beginning this onion transition in Redbud 1. I give you full credit for this!
2) Shopping. Neither of us really love to shop but it would be nice to be able to go shopping, not get lost, and find things that fit us. We don't get lost very often but we don't shop that much either.
3)Fruit selling. Trucks like these come everyday in the afternoon. Sometimes we want to take a nap in the afternoon but the fruit selling trucks don't allow us that luxury. The trucks sell more than fruit, but usually it's fruit.
4) Cleaning of our apartment steps. So far the building has cleaned the stairways three times. Twice is like this video. One each apartment threw water out of our apartments and then we swept the water and dirt. The first time and the most recent one is where the top floor pours out tons and tons of water (from who knows where) and floods the stairwell. And then for at least a couple hours afterwards we have absolutely no water.
The following video shows what this is like, as well as a still picture. In our entry way there is about a three inch section that is lower than the rest of our house, this is for our shoes, but it was partially filled with water. This is some serious water usage.
5) Matthew has shown symptoms of becoming Korean. He has started to walk and speak like them. Observe the following video. You may not understand it but his walking has been affected.
Again on a serious note, we feel so blessed to be able to go home to a job. We ask that you pray for us as we prepare for this new season. We want to do God's will and be a blessing to others through Him.
1 comment:
"I want kimchi."
lol.
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