Happy Resurrection Day/Easter

Today is known to the world as Easter, or as many of us Christians say -- Resurrection Day. . . . I helped put together the first Sunday Sunrise Gathering for the foreigners at my church today which is a cool experience. I even gave a little 8-10 minute message on the meaning of the day, which Pastor Ken gave some commendable reviews on.  

  I've been feeling rough all weekend, and I woke up coughing like crazy around 3:45 am, and couldn't get back to sleep before that 5 am alarm sounded off.  I was able to get a small nap in before I attended an 11:00 am wedding.  Not sure how many people choose to get married on the day of a marathon in their city, and of course being Easter day, but the owner of my health club did.  It was kind of weird to see all of the people in their dressy clothes instead of those funny gym clothes that they were.  I went with little Sis, and Sue, who lives in the neighborhood.  One of the old men gave me a big "thumps up" for having two women with me.  

When that was finished I went back to the Korean family's house and got in a nice nap.  I took a taxi back to the university -- there were tons of people enjoying the first REAL day of Spring (temperature wise at least).  There were so many families with their kids, and of course many of the college students were there as well.  Our church service at 2 pm, went really well, and some of the occasional visitors came by, bringing along a few friends too.  As I left the campus, I went the long way and got a few pictures in.    

I'll post about the crazy week at work later -- well, not really crazy, but a little bit.

Slacking off again

I've been called out now for slacking off by a friend who likes to read this blogging stuff of mine.  I have no clue why someone would want to read this stuff -- there's so much more excitement on the internet than this, but I'm humbled either way.  I've been spending too much time at the gym, hanging out with the old men, or flirting with some young lady, who attracts me mostly because she doesn't stay distracted like most her age.  By that I mean, she's not making calls on a treadmill, or playing with her smart phone while exercising.  She's cute, and she does her job, and that's that.  Actually there's a few more quality men and women these days at the gym like that.  One thing I've always appreciated about coming back to America, is going to the gym, and watching people just do their thing.  No distractions from phones, for the most part.  I, personally distract myself sometimes with my IPod on Facebook, or Kakao talk, but I do a decent job of minimizing it.

Anyway, things are going well here.  Staying busy has its consequences, but I stay rested up, and melatonin becomes my friend once or twice a week.  I even had the honor of leading the praising with HyoSeon, our musical leader and talented pianist, and Chote, one of our wonderful voices, who hails from Myanmar.  Fritz played guitar, and then two of the Koreans played accompanied us on drums and piano respectively.  One of the songs was a classic hymn - Old Rugged Cross -- that my favorite singer Brad Paisley knocked out of the ballpark a long time ago.  Chote and I did a duet of Great is Thy Faithfulness, which received a wonderful response from the congregation.  I was proud of the job we did on that, and we practiced her to make it a wonderful experience too.

Besides church, I met up with an old student last Sunday afternoon, whose mom gave me a feast of raw fish, and other Korean delicacies. Saturday nights are the usual English club gathering, but this time I avoided the discussion period and just went for food and beer (well, the others partook in the beer part).  The weather here isn't so great -- almost freezing tonight for some random reason.  We've gotten temps in the 60s though lately.  I wish those temps would stay, but Spring has only just begun.

I leave two pictures for you!!

Anyone see this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsNlcr4frs4&feature=share

pretty impressive stuff!!

Some pictures from our joint worship service from this past weekend

I downloaded these off Facebook.  Our member Chote had someone take these pictures with her camera, so they were loaded up last night.  We had an amazing experience, worshiping and singing with folks from all around the world.  Enjoy these few pictures that we got from last night -- the folks at Abundant Life Worship Center had more pictures, but I wouldn't know how to get a hold of them.

                                        Professor Choi, myself, Hyoseon and Chote

                                           With two little African girls that were so cute

                                           Hyoseon, myself and our new friends

                                           ALWC's Pastor

                                          Getting ready to sing the last song together

Some pictures of kiddos

Here are a few pictures of the little ones that I teach -- I'll have to show more of them another time.  They definitely keep me on my heels.  Most importantly, I sleep well at night though.  I'll actually type something news-worthy over the weekend!!

                                           thought it was an interesting sighting in Daegu, Korea

                                            Whenever I need a laugh, I talk to this kid in some Southern slang

                                               Boss's daughter -- good kid

                                         I have about 90 minutes with these kids per day

My coworker Amelia would shoot me for this one!!

A picture from hiking

On Saturday, I organized some folks from the church to go on a little hiking trip.  There were eight of us, from six different countries (Korea, Myanmar, Philippines, Indonesia, Ethiopia, and USA).  It was a cloudy, dreary day, but it was nice for us to get out.  

I'll post more stuff tomorrow.

Have a good Sunday.

Long Time No See

My deepest apologies for being too lazy to put posts on here in the last few weeks.  I've not been that busy -- a little worn down from working a "normal" schedule (at least by my American standards, it is).  Working with little ones though in the afternoon is definitely kicking my butt.  The easy part is the young ones in the morning and early afternoon.  That's due to a Korean being in the room to assist me at almost all times.  I do get SMALL snacks in the morning and afternoon, as well as a lunch.  I'll have to start preparing food daily, like I started doing last week.

It's 12:45 am right now, but I wanted to at least post something on here before I went to sleep.  I'm gonna doze off in a few minutes, so I can wake up early for the NCAA tournament -- gotta see the Tigers and Jayhawks play when I rise.

Have a good weekend