Hello All,
Life is happening and so my posting has clearly dropped off a bit as a result. I not only am at the school 2 days weekly but we have started a small group with other 20-30 something y.o. from our church that do not have children and we meet weekly. Plus recently are now hosting a Bible study weekly at our apartment and I am a leader in the women's ministry at church. Additionally I have been meeting new people, developing relationships and experiencing life all mixed in with everything else!
Last week I attended a show where people were performing various sonnets or monologues from Shakespeare's works. It was in Seoul and I met up with a new friend from South Africa who has been here for several years. I enjoyed her company more than the actual performances but overall it was a nice experience. About 15 or so people got up on the stage and most of the audience I think was made up of artistic type people so they laughed at some performances I didn't actually get at all. The people performing seemed to be American, Korean, or British, if from anywhere else I couldn't tell (like maybe a Canadian and not a US citizen). Daniel was a sweetheart and drove down to Seoul and then traded me phones so I would have Google maps to look at. He went back on the train and stayed awake pretty much until I got home, just in case. It was sweet :-)
This past Saturday the women's ministry met up at the arboretum in Osan and it was a perfect day! There were about 11 of us total and we had a picnic under a Korean style outdoor eating area, I don't remember what it was called. In the group there were 4 Korean women in the group of us and I felt super selfish because the one lady had brought food to share with everyone. The rest of us only brought food for ourselves. Apparently it is Korean style to share meals like how she did and I noticed the other Korean women were much more comfortable accepting the food she brought. I wanted to try the food because she cooked it and I liked everything. In there was like a spicy "fish jerky" (that's what I'm calling it anyway) and it was really good! I think because it was homemade it tasted good to me, from a package it seems like it would be really salty or not as flavorful maybe.
I was also able to attend the high school boys' soccer team last tournament last Friday. They play other international schools here in the country. I noticed some different rules and was informed of some different rules that they have here. One appears to be that you have to wait until the player you sub for runs off the field before you run in. Also apparently you are not allowed to yell out "mine" when you go for the ball because it confuses the other team!?! To me the refs seemed to call a lot of unnecessary fouls for unintentional things. Anyway, watching the games reminds me of why I don't like watching sports, I get too anxious and my empathy level goes way up and I feel like my adrenaline is just as high as the players so I get pretty irritated and mad.
Oh, are you confused about the title of my post in comparison to the subject matter!?! Let me tell you the brief awkwardness I experienced last week... We were at our small group and waiting to get into the apartment building of the couple hosting when the security guard came over to let us all in. The security is an older very petite Korean man. Well, there were 3 of us girls and then Daniel and all of us girls had on sandals/flip flops. The guard proceeded to say something in Korean as he playfully bent down and touched each of the three of us on one toe. An awkward laugh escaped with a look of complete confusion on my part. I thought it was funny but I was super confused, and still am actually.
I stole the pics from the SCBC Women's page,
Camille
Life is happening and so my posting has clearly dropped off a bit as a result. I not only am at the school 2 days weekly but we have started a small group with other 20-30 something y.o. from our church that do not have children and we meet weekly. Plus recently are now hosting a Bible study weekly at our apartment and I am a leader in the women's ministry at church. Additionally I have been meeting new people, developing relationships and experiencing life all mixed in with everything else!
Last week I attended a show where people were performing various sonnets or monologues from Shakespeare's works. It was in Seoul and I met up with a new friend from South Africa who has been here for several years. I enjoyed her company more than the actual performances but overall it was a nice experience. About 15 or so people got up on the stage and most of the audience I think was made up of artistic type people so they laughed at some performances I didn't actually get at all. The people performing seemed to be American, Korean, or British, if from anywhere else I couldn't tell (like maybe a Canadian and not a US citizen). Daniel was a sweetheart and drove down to Seoul and then traded me phones so I would have Google maps to look at. He went back on the train and stayed awake pretty much until I got home, just in case. It was sweet :-)
This past Saturday the women's ministry met up at the arboretum in Osan and it was a perfect day! There were about 11 of us total and we had a picnic under a Korean style outdoor eating area, I don't remember what it was called. In the group there were 4 Korean women in the group of us and I felt super selfish because the one lady had brought food to share with everyone. The rest of us only brought food for ourselves. Apparently it is Korean style to share meals like how she did and I noticed the other Korean women were much more comfortable accepting the food she brought. I wanted to try the food because she cooked it and I liked everything. In there was like a spicy "fish jerky" (that's what I'm calling it anyway) and it was really good! I think because it was homemade it tasted good to me, from a package it seems like it would be really salty or not as flavorful maybe.
I was also able to attend the high school boys' soccer team last tournament last Friday. They play other international schools here in the country. I noticed some different rules and was informed of some different rules that they have here. One appears to be that you have to wait until the player you sub for runs off the field before you run in. Also apparently you are not allowed to yell out "mine" when you go for the ball because it confuses the other team!?! To me the refs seemed to call a lot of unnecessary fouls for unintentional things. Anyway, watching the games reminds me of why I don't like watching sports, I get too anxious and my empathy level goes way up and I feel like my adrenaline is just as high as the players so I get pretty irritated and mad.
Oh, are you confused about the title of my post in comparison to the subject matter!?! Let me tell you the brief awkwardness I experienced last week... We were at our small group and waiting to get into the apartment building of the couple hosting when the security guard came over to let us all in. The security is an older very petite Korean man. Well, there were 3 of us girls and then Daniel and all of us girls had on sandals/flip flops. The guard proceeded to say something in Korean as he playfully bent down and touched each of the three of us on one toe. An awkward laugh escaped with a look of complete confusion on my part. I thought it was funny but I was super confused, and still am actually.
The lady sitting right beside me is the one that brought all of the goodies. This is the structure that we ate in but I am unsure of what it is called. Also Korean style is that you take your shoes off and sit on the floor when you are eating here, outside was no exception.
American, Korean, South African, Filipino represented here!
It was hilarious how exciting it was for everyone to see a squirrel. In the States it's nothing but here you don't often see them so it was pretty funny to see people trying to take a picture and children running around after it.
Titus 2:3-5 Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.
Look at all the food she shared! Everything I tried tasted pretty yummy :-)
Titus 2:3-5 Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.
I stole the pics from the SCBC Women's page,
Camille
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