I had my some of my students over to my house to make cookies. It was a new experience for them to make western style desserts. Check out the pics...

Today was a big day-I uploaded my first html homework assignment onto the net and I paid off all my bills. Not to mention, I also saw one of my good friends cry for the first time today and one of my other good friends saw me cry for the first time yesterday. These are slightly emotional times lately around my neck of the woods. In my opinion, it's a lot because we got our schedules for next semester this last Wednesday and they're pretty much lame for everybody. There's an administration squeeze which basically means they won't hire another person for this next semester yet that's what we need for everyone's schedule to be manageable thus most people's schedules aren't manageable. But on to what I want to tell you and I might come back to that later but you could say a prayer for our staff about that.

Yes, I did say html (which doesn't stand for have tomatoes melted lately nor does it stand for healthy toes moo loudly) Ha,ha...I'm so funny. It's a code that helps you to design WebPages. I'm taking an html class on the internet-so far it's really great. Just what I need -with not too much information but enough for me to educate myself about the stuff I want to know and the price is great, too. 20$ for a 6 week class -so far I'm pleased. http://www.lvsonline.com I've run out of time. I've got to go to sleep. I'm having one of my really active classes come over and we're going to make cookies (because they don't make cookies in the western sense...it's not in their tradition, they make Korean style goodies) I'm kind of nervous about it, though because I'm not really a baker and I hope I can find all the materials I need such as chocolate chips! Good night!

Right now we're having festival at my school. This is a time when my school has all kinds of activities, competitions and special food stands. Not to mention there are no classes on Thursday and Friday. The bummer is though that somehow ironically it seems every festival the weather decides to be unseasonably cold and rainy. So that makes the students sad because they put so much work into their performances but it's rainy and inconvenient. Well, me I'm trying to grade two classes of writing a day so I can be caught up. Right now I'm kind of sad because it just seems my time always goes right out the window. But I suppose I shouldn't be that bummed cuz I met my personal "grading goal" yesterday. This is also a time to try and hang out with students, so in 5 minutes I'm going out with a student to hang out.

hi Teen Mania people! Welcome to my site! I can see some of you have been visiting. It's good to see you here. Please feel free to look around and write me a "shout out" if you want. You can tell me how the honor academy was for you or ask me questions about "life 7 years outside the internship or honor academy" What do you guys call yourselves now? Interns?

I've added more links to my "LINKS" page. Check it out...

Ok...here I go again about super stars. But I was surfing the net today and adding some stuff to my site which caused me to take a look at this Christian site that I think does a great job of interacting with the arts from a Christian worldview. It doesn't just write stuff off as "bad" but interacts-particularly analyzing movies. Among other interesting articles I came across an article on a new movie coming out by Mel Gibson called, "Passion". It's a movie chronicling Jesus’ walk to the cross and in the movie Jesus only speaks Aramaic and Latin with no subtitles! You've got to read this interview-it's fascinating! Interview with Mel Gibson about his movie, "Passion" Write me a shout out about what you think of the interview...

I'm so happy right now because I just read this interview with Madonna. (Read the interview) I'm so happy for her. She's really come to so far in her emotional well being. It's interesting to read these interviews with stars and see some of them go through this cycle. Because they get to a point in their life where they have everything they could possibly want and yet they are still empty and their life is still chaotic. I think they get the unique opportunity to have a "Solomon experience" where they realize everything is meaningless without real love, truth and ultimately God. The interviewer asked her about her past and to summarize she said, "I was a buffoon until the age 40" and the reason was that everything was about her being the center of attention. The interviewer said, "What's wrong with that?" And she said, "Because that's not what were put on this earth for." She and her family have gotten really into Kabala, which is a mystical form of Judaism. Interesting, very interesting. So anyway I'm happy she's gained some stability in her life and I'm also happy about the kind of cultural impact this can have on people. Interestingly, I've happened to watch some enlightening interviews with stars lately. For example, I saw an interview with Bono from the band U2 on Larry King Live and wow-I was impressed. It was a similar thing, these are old stars and they've been there, seen that and done that. And it's not what everyone thinks it's going to be. So Bono is really into fighting AIDS in Africa and he gave a very persuasive argument for the issues surrounding that in Africa.

So I'm in my office because as you know this one of the only places I can get Internet access. The sound of students singing praise songs in Korean is drifting into my open office window. They often pray and sing praise songs in the plaza outside my window. I just got back a couple hours ago from Seoul. I was there with Sandy, Ro and Joanne. We had a good time. Right now it all seems like a blur. We went up there Friday night by bus, which was actually really fun. We got into really interesting conversations on the way there. Then the whole weekend we mostly shopped and ate Western food that we normally don't have access to. It's so nice to go to Seoul because in comparison to Pohang it seems like you can get and do anything. Oh yeah, we went to this cool college district and sipped drinks in the cool night air as we sat on the patio of a restaurant that looked like an old-style mansion. That area was "hopping". It reminded me a little bit of Spain because it was late at night and there were people everywhere eating at these outside cafes. I also bought a couple books, which I'm really excited about. I bought a book called, "What went wrong?" a book discussing and analyzing the historical relationship between the Middle East and Europe. It should be interesting. I also got a book by National Geographic called, "Islam" which has a lot of stunning pictures and stories from the 1900's till now. So I'm excited. Ro, Sandy, Joanne and I also had Bible reading and prayer times at night, which we never have had before (we've prayed together but never in this organized of a manner) so it was really great to pray for each other. I also love to hear the Word read out loud, it's beautiful just to hear doctrine and truth wash over you.

Also I was surfing the web earlier and I came across the website of the ministry I used to work for a long time ago, Teen Mania. It was so amazing to visit the world that for one year was my entire world. I also visited the website of the program I was a part of once called "The Internship" now called "Honor Academy". I'm going to get an ID soon as an alumni and see if I can chat with some old friends. Here's the website http://www.honoracademy.com

It's Thursday night. 9pm and I'm still in my office. I just finished a meeting with a sweet passionate girl that works for a student ran missionary group here on campus called MNE (Mission and English). We talked about exciting possibilities of me helping to train the MNE students to teach English. I already taught them a little bit last semester and it was such a refreshing change to teach people that spoke so well and were so motivated to learn. So I'm excited, humbled and honored about the prospect of teaching them this semester. Well, we'll see what happens because I've learned to take it one step at a time and not get too far ahead of myself.

Haha...right now I'm listening to "Manic Monday" by Cindy Lauper. It's really funny. It brings back memories of an era-doesn't it? "Just another Manic Monday...la,la"

Wow, Sandy came in here and we just had this big talk about the therapeutic benefits of writing (especially publicly) and then we had a big discussion about the nature of Christian freedom. So now we are both really tired and I need to pack because we're (Sandy, Ro, Joanne and I) going to Seoul this weekend because we all have Monday off. So we're going to go have some fun in the big city. Off to pack. Later