I almost forgto to blog

It's Tuesday, normally I blog on Monday. I'm sorry. Things are getting busy and taking up my life. I was busy finishing up some letters and take care of things yesterday. Today is a holiday. It's not the kind of holiday where things closed down, I still had to work. It is Pepero day. A day where you buy pepero and give it to people. Pepero are these cracker sticks, they kinda taste like animals crackers or graham crackers and they are covered in chocolate or they have chocolate in the inside. 11/11 is pepero day. So that's today, but let's go back to what you missed.

I felt this year when it came to the election, I was luck in many ways. I didn't get to see the smear ads that the rest of the world had to watch. I also went to bed at start of the election day. I went to bed about 10 pm here which was about 6 am Tuesday in AZ. I woke and got to work and opened the internet to CNN.com and the polls on the east coast had just started closing. It was very nerve wrecking to watch the polls and see how things go. I had to start teaching and only a few polls had closed, I think it was 16 to 3 McCain at that time. Katie and I took our kids to bathroom at the same time, so she would watch my kids and I would run to the office and hit refresh. By lunch time, we kinda knew that Obama had it, but it wasn't official. He needed about 70 more. After lunch, Katie and I took our kids into the gym. I opened up starfall, so they could practice their letter names and sounds and build their vocab. I opened up another window and went to CNN.com. I would refresh CNN while I waited for Starfall to load. About 1:15, I refreshed and Obama had won. I was a McCain supporter, so this was a little upsetting. I felt that McCain would do a better job of fixing things in our country, but I guess not. God knows what He is doing and there is a reason that he is now in charge of our country.

The rest of the week was good. We had science the kids are great and did well. They like to do science and really enjoy it. I also picked up my alien registration card this week. I can now go get a bank account and won't have to carry home millions of won in my backpack.

On Saturday, I went to another palace. I had my Korean friend Hun meet there. We walked around and talked. He is very nice guy. After the palace, he took me over to the Korean house. The Korean house is where the king lived when he didn't want to be at the palace. They had a neat little festival thingie going on and I didn't really see the Korean house. After the Korean house, we went over to Seoul North Tower. We just walked around the bottom, we didn't ride up the tower. There were a bunch of locks on the railing at the tower. We you love someone, you go to the tower and buy two locks, you each write a message and then lock your locks together and throw the key over the side. My dad made a joke about a bunch of Korean running around with key shaped dents in their heads. Hun and I had dinner, and parted ways.

On Sunday, I was low on money, and warn out from all the sightseeing that I went to warm bed baptist church and Pastor Pillow had a good message (aka I slept). I called home and talked with my parents and my nephew. I had play practice, so I traveled up to the other church. When going places, it is easiest to find them, if you go out the right exit. I went out exit 2 when I should have gone out exit 4 and then I began to wonder why nothing looked right. So I turned and saw that I came out exit 2, so I crossed street and walked over to exit 4 and found my way. Amazing isn't it.

Monday was pay day, I found out early in the morning that they didn't plan on paying me until I had my bank account. I made it very clear that today was pay day and I was getting paid. Somebody must have been praying back home. Things have gotten easier to deal with the staff since Vincent got here. Kelly doesn't always see or understand things from my side. Vincent seems to understand. Things get taken care of with way less stress when dealing with Vincent. I have feeling that someone was pray I would have less stress whoever it was, thank you. I finished writing my letter Tammy on Monday. She asked if my friends or I need something. I knew something that Katie, Kristen and Erik could all use or liked, but I didn't know about Mike. So I asked him, if there was anything he would like from the states. He is from Canada. He thought of two things he would really like and wrote them down. He was kinda amazed that someone who barely knows me, would want to do something like. He said his friends back home wouldn't do anything like. After I left the office he told Katie, that kinda makes you want to go back to church.

As for me, I'm doing ok. I have things that need prayer, but I'm not sure I can list them all. I told Pastor Lord, and J20, that I'm battling homesickness. It's not like in the beginning. It's different. I won't have a bad day. It'll be a good, normal day and I'll sit down and this want to go home will just wash over. It's hard because it just consumes me. I try hard to push it away but it won't always go away. So pray for that. The best way to explain what it does to me is like this. Last month, I knew in my heart that I should be. I knew that I could be away for a year. I knew it in my heart that I was strong enough to do this, but now this month, I don't know that anymore. I also have other things I'm sorting out that need prayer. But that is it for now.

I love you and miss you.