It's How You Get There

I've been here 7 months now.  That's insane to me. In a week we'll start our new school year and I'll have a new course schedule, new students, new experiences to learn.  It's also spring. As a Midwest girl, the idea of consistent 60 degree weather in February is mind boggling. I mean, we've had weird weather in Iowa, I've seen it this warm in February before. But not consistently. So this early spring is great. The sun is rising earlier and earlier, and setting later and later. Benefits of being out of the States, there's no daylight savings. That's the part of spring that I consistently dread the most when I'm home. I like waking up to sunlight, and having it ripped away from me when we spring forwards felt a lot like having my ice cream taken away midbite.  Friday night I also had my first successful phone call in Korean. Granted that was with my friend HyunHo, who knows my brand of Korean, so I'm not sure how many other people would have ...

You have to taste a culture to understand it. - Deborah Cater So, I haven't seen anyone (well hardly anyone) from my local congregation since October. We've been meeting through zoom, and video etiquette determines that if you're not speaking the video and audio stays off. Since I'm not quite at church speaking level, most people haven't seen me for almost 4 months now.  Which leads to something that will be a secret between you and me - my goal is to lose enough weight that the ladies at my church start asking me if I've been eating enough. Yeah, it's a weird goal, but I don't do well with numbers. Just ask my Mom - she's the one who's suffered most from my stubborn dislike of numbers (the fact I can do any math at all is 100% due to her tireless patience). But reactions? Subjective responses that have little or nothing to do with anything?  Sign me up.  Honestly though, that has been an interesting side effect of moving to Korea - I'm shrin...