From One Year To The Next: My Time In Korea Has Ended

 

Leaving Korea

                                                                                           

The Principal and I

Saying goodbye always brings thoughts to the mind of a thinker. I certainly am a girl who thinks a lot. For my last weeks in Korea I tried to reflect on the year and the things that stuck in my heart the most prominently through my experience. The year was full of new experiences, learning experiences, easy ones and difficult ones. I really enjoyed the people I met through this experience, they were all so different from each other and special.  I am truly blessed to have met and shared time with them.  I am about a week into my return back to the USA and know that saying good bye to Korea was simply bitter sweet, I was sad to say good bye to all the special people in my life there yet I was thankful and happy to return to my home

country and spend time with many of the special people here I missed very much.  I would like to thank all of you in Korea for sharing your time and kindness with me, and I welcome emails and look forward to hearing about your lives in Korea.  Before I end, I would like to share a few things that I learned and am thankful for as I say good to my year in Korea.

1.  I am thankful for the loving kindness of the Lord.  It was a challenge being away from all that was familiar to me but His faithfulness and grace guided me from every direction.  Apart from the Lord I have no good thing I am weak but in the love of Christ there is a strength that astounds me.  I was humbled through this experience in a caring way and am truly thankful.

2.  My apartment and the teacher before me who I left Korea calling sister in Christ and friend.

3.  Having Jesse and Teresa in the same country as I

4.  Great school principal, vice principal, co-teachers and co-workers

5.  All my students

6.  Having Mariah Perrin in my life for the whole year!


7.  Frozen milkshakes in a bag

8.  Safety in the city

9.  Public Transportation

10.  Firework shows at random

11. Jayoutuh Center/School Students

12.  English Speaking Church Services

13.  SKYPE, Lord, I am truly thankful for the invention of skype!

14.  Meeting Amy Therkoff and having her in the same area as I.

15.  Mountains- I had many good hikes alone and with friends, I will miss the mountains.

16.  The Keumjung Venturetel Market Lady and her husband-They helped me out throughout the year in
taking my bills to the bank because the bank closed before I got off work.

17.  Being able to travel around Asia at a very affordable price.

18.  Very cheap health care and kind Doctors ( I got sick many times :/)

19.  The D-Deli restraunt owner- she gave me many free meals and was very kind to me

20.  Pickles and corn on pizza- Delicious!

Overall I am truly thankful to all my experiences the easy and the difficult.  I am thankful to all the people I met over the year, it is the experience of meeting so many different people and learning about their lives and sharing time together that I liked the most about living in a different country and traveling through Asia.
Well, I am unsure of what tomorrow brings and what my next adventure will be.  I think that is okay.  I must not worry about tomorrow because today is right under my feet, I just need to walk it out.  Thanks to all of you for reading my blog.   Enjoy a few pictures of my last days in Korea

The Office Staff and I