Broken Mirrors and other stories from Korea

So these next few blogs will be catching up on our time in Korea. It's hard to believe we've been back in the States since the beginning of June.

Here is a close up picture of my prescription medicine. Each day had a different package.





Here is me with the long line of my daily medicines. After my appendix surgery I was happy to have help with the pain meds, but eventually they had to stop.



As I recovered, people from the church and school were so sweet. This package of cookies is from on of my students Hany.

When I started to go back to work I only worked part-time. One afternoon I was ready to try and get out of the house. So Matthew suggested we go back to Juan station and see a store he'd visited while I was in the hospital. Also, we went to eat at the restaurant Joony had taken Matthew to the day of my surgery.



It was getting hot and capris were in season. Boys more-so than girls.

The restaurant was wonderful! Dolsot Bibimbob. Mmmm.









My favorite, favorite Korean food.



Little fishies for salt! I did not use them.



On the way back, we treated ourselves to a warm waffle with chocolate creme inside. Again: mmmm. I do miss those.



More man-capris. I was fascinated.



On our walk back to the apartment I had Matthew take this awesome shot on top of a wall around a housing area. These glass pieces are there to deter others from climbing up the wall. I think it might work better than barb-wire.

During our last days in Korea we broke our mirror. Well. It broke itself. We were peacefully sleeping at night when we heard a huge BANG! Which we both woke up to with a feeling of fear. We had no idea what it was, so Matthew got up and went out to see what the noise was. As we opened the door, there was the mirror. Face down. We decided to leave it as it was and clean it up later.



7 years of bad luck =) But maybe we got to leave the bad luck in Korea!



Cleaning up!

Mission Day came again and we had an awesome talk about science and the Bible from Hetani, the junior coordinator at the Academic Office.

The students were really impressed and talked about how they wanted to read the Bible. It's exciting to hear them stay that.

After mission day we usually go out to eat. Usually Ashley's. But we were tired of Ashley's and so begged Deaconness Jang (who we called Jip-su-nem) to cook for us. She created a feast.





AND haystacks, special request of the foreign teachers. It was her first time and it was great...she forget the beans but that's okay. We made do with rice.

Typing posts about Korea, from the United States is weird for me. I miss the people there. I'm so happy to be home, but I miss my Korean family.

Thank God we have heaven.

I read this verse in Philippians and it reminds me of my students and those I love in Korea.

"And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ--to the glory and praise of God."

Philippians 1:9-11

It is my prayer that they will learn and grow in Christ and that we can see each other in heaven. All part of God's family.