my apologies

so i knew this time would come when i would catch up to myself and start to fall behind. so i ask for your forgiveness if anyone is reading this and i will attempt to do better. :)

so a brief recap of the week/ weekend:

-they dont really celebrate easter here so i mean even in the Christian church. they knows its easter and we did sing a lot more hymns this time. that was great! some classics i know some of you were singing as well. so that was nice. and i got an easter egg though not colored. hehe.

-after church this man whose son and daughter live in canada now and daughter just married an american has kind of adopted me. he set up for me to visit his house and wife and then to go to seoul tower. first of all, his apartment was amazing! i liked my apartment till i visited his. hahaha. it was huge! it had a huge open window and balcony on the 9th floor. it was so open and clean and nice! and his wife makes her own kimchi! sooo good! and they fed me noodles and fruit and orange juice, and did i say the kimchi was great? she ferments it for 3 months. yummy!

he also owns a flat in calgary, canada in alberta where his son and daughter now live. he is hoping to move there very soon. he showed me pictures of the family and her wedding and calgary. and we just had a great convo about korean culture versus western cutlure and how family oriented it is. like first of all, hes rich, but he has already bought a flat for his son to live in or sell when he is ready. then he gave a ton of money to his daughter and bought the flat they are all living in to give them a headstart in live. he was talking about his soninlaws family and an example of how the american family the sister wanted to try some of her mother's dessert, so she went to stick her fork in the pie and her mother slapped her hand away. Friday and his Korean wife could not believe such an action! why would you deny your child such a trifle of a thing? he thought it was very interesting and it effected him and his wife. they would never do such a thing. very intersting.

so then his friend and his friends daughter sarah came and picked us up in a car to drive to seoul tower. very cool people. sarahs dad could not speak english but he was so nice. haha and funny. sarah has class every sunday from 9 to 5 for math! yikes! i told her never in america. or at least not the america i know. no way. and she normally goes to school from like 7am to 11pm. you just do. thats what everyone does. its cultural - these are all things i have been told.

we wondered around at seoul tower which was amazing even despite the weather. it was beautiful. i can't really put into words how cool it was and even the pictures i have, you can't really see how cool it was. it was great. really.

then we had dinner which was, man, um, it think budae jjigae. its like ham, sausage, beef and all types of meat all put together in soup. yummy! a bit spicy, but good! apparently its very famous in that area of seoul and quite delectable! and they bought ribs and all the side dishes and my very own baked potato. hahaha, but it had yogurt on it...not cheese as i was so excited for. but yummy anyways! and of course no night is complete without at least one shot of soju. :)

so it was a great day to celebrate Christs' sacrifice for me which I realize hopefully more and more each day. i know today i feel it. i was in the middle of teaching my little 5 year olds when in my head i kind of stopped and i was like, wow, i love this. what an amazing thing. these kids are great and i really am happy right now.

moments like that carry me through the days. :)