Sometimes it's difficult to believe I've only been here a year, and sometimes it's difficult to believe that I've already been here a year. I fear that words are not going to do it much justice tonight.
My school is still struggling to meet our minimum enrollment for budget purposes. Currently we are only six students under, which will soon turn to nine when a prominent family moves. It's been very discouraging lately because I've had to deal with a lot of people who have the mentality that a small school does not matter much for anything (sports, academics, and the like). We're just a small school that is unable to provide the luxuries that some people think we should have. Despite all of that, however, there is no where else I'd rather be than sitting in my classroom in the middle of the rice paddy.
The truth is, yes I work in the smallest of our three ICS schools in Korea, and it's perhaps one of the smallest international schools in the country, but we have a staff like no where else in the world. Most of us fear what would happen if we became larger and would have 500+ students in the high school rather than under 200 for the entire school. The staff would risk loosing our tight-knitedness as well as our personal relationships with a lot of students.
Anyhow, so how is life really going? Things right now are insane! It seems like all I ever do is try to make up for lost time, constantly grading every waking minute. I have recently been given a new challenge on the job, which is to teach essentially two classes in one. I have a class of 15 students where one of the 15 is a grade ahead. Which means I have to teach the 14 and the one and keep them all on task all at the same time. This is something I could definitely use a lot of prayer for.
The other aspects of life are going really well. The House is still staying strong. I'm now teaching Sunday school every other week (to elementary kids...). I'm pretty sure in my last post that I mentioned that I have tried kegoggie (dog) soup. I will put pictures up soon. The real bummer of things is that my camera is broken, so now I can't even use it. Newer pictures will probably be scarce.
We're still searching for where in Asia the Lord is leading for our spring mission trip. If you have contacts of any missionaries or missions organizations that are in Asia and would like a team of students to come and work with them in April, please let me know.
Please continue to pray for me as I continue to seek out the Lord's will for my life. There is plenty of decision making ahead of me for various things. Please keep that in prayer.
Until next time...
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Hey, you know those feelings of "I've only been here a year and I've already been here a year" never really went away even after three years. Now I feel out of place in Canada. I was on the bus the other day and I was the only non-asian person, then I felt like I was in the right place. I'm so glad that I know that this is where I'm supposed to be, because I certainly don't feel like it sometimes.
I pray that everything that everything is going well. Looks like you had fun on the Labour Day trip. Luv ya, Julia
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