I went to church today, went on a jog, then hung-out in my office, made a test and played on the internet. (in my office is the only place where I can go online right now-I can't wait until I can connect in my house!) I'm about to go to sleep. I'm reading this interesting article called, "Gospel Community: Singleness, Marriage and Family" (Given to me by Allen when he was visiting Handong-thanks Allen) Here are some thoughts from the article,
"Ironically, Eph. 5:11 with it's 'exalted' view of marriage, also supports the ideas of the goodness of singleness! How? Ephesians 5 tells us that marriage is not ultimately about sex, social stability or personal fulfillment. Marriage was created to be a reflection on the human level of our ultimate love relationship and union with the Lord. This view of marriage points to the Real marriage that our souls need and Real family our souls want. No marriage will completely give us what we want or need. Ephesians 5 means that even those Christians married to Christians will do a terrible job of conducting their marriage if they don't have a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Christ now and an ultimate hope in a perfect love relationship in heaven."
Anyway, I actually didn't let him explain his point fully about the 'goodness of singleness' but I thought I would share with you just some of the insightful tid-bits from the article. Well, I'm off to bed! Oh no! It's almost 1am! I shouldn't stay up this late! Good night
**I wrote this Sunday night (well, 1am Monday morning) but I am posting it now

My Kyung-ju trip pictures are up. To check them out you can click on "online photo albums" on my website. The pics are so great, if I do say so myself. :-) Looking at them again makes me remember how beautiful it was there. Even though I was there, when I look at the pics again I think, "Wow, it was so beautiful." I'm at Ro's house on this relaxed Saturday afternoon. I spent the night at her house last night, after going out last night with Ro, Sandy and Joanne for coffee. Oh man, I should've taken a pic of the coffee shop so you could see it. It was really chic. I had a pine-colada. It was nummy. Last night was really funny. We were as usual being too loud and crazy at the coffee shop, especially in comparison to the Koreans trying to calmly chat in the chic atmosphere. I just realized that this entry is strangely reminiscent to other blogs I've written lately. Well, I suppose this is the time of week that I have time to write and my life on Friday and Saturdays tends to be somewhat repetitive.

I recently got a desk in my room which I'm super happy about. It's so nice to have a little work station in your room. It's made such a difference, because otherwise I would use my bed to read and write on (in which I would often promptly fall asleep on). So now my goal is to try to write a little on blog each day or every other day! Let's see how I do. :-) OK, Ro's distracting me right now showing me pictures of her cat that is in America right now. I've also got to go take a jog then I'm going out with some of the students that worked with the international ministry. They are such a fun group of girls. We used to meet together every Tuesday last semester. We had some really great prayer time and bonding times. Anna is from Russia, Grace is a Korean that speaks English excellently and Natalia is from Uzbekistan.

I also wanted to mention that I lived most of my life in a place that doesn't have the four seasons. So when you live in a place that has four seasons, it's just so amazing when spring comes. Spring is now in full bloom on our campus and the scorching heat of summer has not yet set in. A week ago I just walked out of my house to walk to my office and I was just struck with the sudden greenness that had seemed to spring up over night. For me I just get so used to one season, that I'm surprised when the next season comes. So in this case the trees were naked for so long but now our campus is bursting with color and the smell of flowers. I feel like I'm being overdramatic but really it's true when you walk outside the smell of flowers is in the air. So now I'm going to go on a jog and enjoy. I also need to mention something of great importance!! My dear friend, Alison and her husband, Ethan, had their second daughter, Olivia on April 15! (to see a pic of Olivia-go to "online photo albums" then click on "friends" album) So congrats Al and I'm praying for you!

Happy After Easter! He is risen! It's Monday morning and I'm about to start preparing for my classes. I think in the US it's Easter night. I had a good Easter weekend. I went to the crucifixion service on Friday here on campus. I was asked to be one of the professors that would give communion. It was interesting because in Korea when you give communion (or do many pastoral duties) you wear white gloves. The service was totally in Korean except some songs but it was still a great service-Koreans are very passionate in their prayers.

Well, next time I'll tell you about my trip to Chung-ju to see all the trees covered with cherry blossoms. Back to work I go!

Hey! It worked! Cool-maybe I'll write more later today. I've got to get ready for 11:30 class.

It's really strange but for some reason both my officemate and I can't publish entries into our blogs from our office computers. Our computers won't let us! We can publish entries from other computers just not the computers in our office. So that's why I haven't published lately. So hopefully it will work soon.

Hi, I'm hanging out with Ro and Sandy at Ro's apartment. We went out tonight to have "tac galby" (chicken, vegetables and spicy sause). It's interesting we talked about how we're really loud and hyper on Friday nights cuz we've been pent up in our offices all week. So it's a time to just "let our hair down" and be crazy. I didn't realize it but Ro was like, "You're really goofy on Fridays." I was like, "Really?". So we had a good time eating ice cream and giggling as we walked around the streets of Pohang. Then we went to a coffeshop and talked forever. Well, there's my random entry. Thought I would write since I hadn't written for a while.

Yeah!! I finally have comment ability on my blog!! Yeah! So if you want to comment on something I write, you can click "shout out" and leave a message.

So what's up with me? Hmmmm... Well, as usual at this time of day I'm watching the news while surfing the internet. I am deeply saddened by the war, as I am sure you are, too. My prayer today was that God would protect the helpless, innocent and defenseless (such as children) that are the most tragic victims of conflict. There is a lot more that could be said about that, of course. Maybe I'll talk about it later. Things are going well with my classes. I still feel a bit too busy but things are going well. I like my schedule more than last semester's schedule because I have fewer classes. Today I was teaching writing to my freshmen class. I'm really enjoying it cuz I like the way the book is set up. Today more specifically the students were editing each other's paragraphs and for the most part they worked very diligently. So I was pleased. Look here-I'm boring you with my teacher life!

Anyway, last weekend my friends and I celebrated Ro's B-day by going to the Hilton for a "western buffet" then went to a "Naori bong" which is basically Karoki in a private room. We had the best time. The food was great-we were able to have lovely rarities like cheese. Then I personally had the best time at the naori bong, we were dancing around with tambourines singing, "Remember when we used to sing- shan,na,na,na,na,na,la-de-da....Brown eyed girl" Well, I'm going to try to go to study Korean. C ya

Today the sun is shining beautifully. It's been raining the last couple days so it's nice to see the sun streaming into my living room. I just finished watching Larry King Live-more talk about the war, of course. It's the weekend after the first week of classes and I feel like I just survived through an ordeal. Ironically, it was a good week as far as my classes, their responses and my ability to keep my energy going but it was NON-STOP! Every minute was full and I didn't get back home until late every day but Thursday and Friday. Every teacher felt that way that was involved in the new freshman placement testing, I feel in essence the testing was successful but it was chaotic and exhausting for the teachers involved. I can't imagine what it was like for my supervisor, who had even more logistical work of placing everyone. It was a good week but I can't and won't keep that up-it's not healthy. I barely ate the first three days. (I know that's bad!! I'm stopping that promise!) I would get in to my office after my class and only have 15 minutes for lunch. Then have students coming in after classes about multiple issues and so somehow the time would go by and I'd forget to eat. Both my officemate and I are glad that week is over; along with all the other teachers involved I'm sure.

My classes are cool so far. I have two sophomore classes and 3 freshman classes. There are many interesting aspects to having sophomores this year, one being that some of them I have had since their first Freshman semester. So I have seen them grow in their English skills and also as a person. I've seen them go from eager, wide-eyed freshman to someone more adjusted to University life. It's interesting and endearing. My freshmen classes are also cute. They are so excited and giggly. Yesterday I had my first real class with them, because they are now placed in their levels. I went around reading off the list and usually in English classes students have English names but since they are all freshmen they didn't have any. So many of them asked me to give them English names so I ended up naming a lot of my class. It was funny. We joked it was like I was their mother. I do think, however, there will be for me at least a special memory about this class because I named most of them. Well, I'm going to go do my dishes then go for a run...lots of love

I'm up late once again. Joanne and I were hanging out watching Korean dramas. It's funny-we both get into them. Like, "Oh no! How could he do that!" as we reactively discuss the plot twists. Of course, she translates cuz I can only understand simple phrases but some how it works out that I understand without her translating like crazy. The wind is really rushing around the trees outside, it sounds beautiful. It was a stormy day today. Yet Jessica, Ro and I went out shopping today and I finally got a coat I'm satisfied with. The other cheaper coat I got tore but I'm going to get it fixed. But this new coat is perfect I think. Well, I got back from the faculty retreat a couple days ago. During this retreat all the profs of the university get together. It was good but packed. We were in the Hilton and met from 9am to 10pm for three days. So it was tiring. But it's a good time to get to know people that you don't often see during the semester. Wow, there is this program on about North Korea right now. It is so incredible and sad. There was this reporter with the exclusive chance to do some filming in N. Korea. There are drills often in the capital preparing for an air raid attack by America. He read some of the newspaper and talked to people and they all talked about America attacking them. It's so ironic because they are so afraid of the outside world and at the same time the world is afraid of them. Well, good night.

Hmmm...my blog is being fussy. Let's see how this works...

I just got done talking to my sis. That was nice. We're fantasing about her coming her with the kids to visit sometime. We'll see if that can work out. Well, it's mid-morning and I've got to do the dishes then head out to office to start preparing for my classes. Next week we have a staff retreat than after that life usually takes off with a lot of meetings. And I often feel like, "Can we stop meeting so I can work on my classes?" :-) So I'm going to try to do some work now. Also as I keep on mentioning we are having an orientation meeting for the international student ministry and I hope that will be a really productive time and get started a lot of stuff early this semester. Yesterday my friend and officemate, Sandy, came back from Spain so Ro, her and I went out to "tac galby" which is basically sliced up chicken with some veggies and spicy sause in a big frying pan that everyone eats from. So we talked about a lot of great stuff about travel and her time in Spain. Well, gotta go. Talk later.

I'm still up...but I really should go to sleep...actually, I'm trying to get the right background for this page. But after this try I'll go to sleep. night night

Good night!

So do I look angry on the intro page of my website? I thought the pic was cool cuz it's in a mirror in this fancy hair salon so it kind of plays with your mind.because I'm in the mirror yet you see the background of where I am. But the more I look at it the more I think...uh, I look bummed. Well, hey nothing really too new with me. I'm still on my break and now I'm in my office cleaning and organizing. Pretty soon I'm going to start preparing my lessons. Just a quick note on the political situation in S. Korea. Right now as we all know it a tense time world wide, however, life here is peaceful as normal as far as my experience and everyone I know's experience. Even though things might be heating up as far as N. Korea goes, life is normal and calm here in S. Korea but we are all worried about the world situation. I've got to go to sleep soon but here are some prayer requests. *Pray for the international student ministry I'm apart of, pray for the students that are in the leadership and pray for my leadership *Pray for those that are not Christians in the international student community Well, I've got to go to bed. C ya

Hi, well this is my newest little update idea. We'll see how it works. Right now I'm back in Pohang hanging out with myself getting lots of little things done that I just don't normally have time to do such as work on this website, emailing and researching stuff. So it's cool. And my fav kind of vacation when you just chill in your house by yourself, read books and do little projects. I was in Korea's capital city, Seoul, for most of December and all of January. I was there taking a Korean language class, attempting to get a little of the language under my belt. It was very challengeing but I do think I can speak "some" Korean whereas before I couldn't speak barely any. Well, school starts in the beginning of March and next week I'll begin to prepare for this semester. I'm also going to be preparing for an orientation for the international studnet miinsitry I'm involved with. So you can pray for me about that. Well, I'll write more later.