My family and I have spent the past several months trying to figure out a solution to the questions of contrasting callings. I've wanted to stay longer, but Amy's job demands her return in the Fall. Though Amy left the decision to me, I had decided that staying for one year in Korea away from Amy and Naomi would be too long. We had talked, though, about the wish for a six month compromise. Unfortunately, the contracts seemed firm at one year.
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Friday, June 24, 2011
Mennonite Concerns in Korea
The following is an message from the email group at Grace and Peace. I thought some might be interested in what is happening from their perspective:
"To sum up, the contents in the e-mail is about a small village, named Gangjung Maeul in Jeju island.
The military ministry of Korea is now trying to build a huge navy base. The planned navy base will be used for strengthening a military hegemony of the US government in the Northeast Asia. In addition, the constructing process will harshly destroy beautiful nature of Jeju island. Therefore residence of the village and some citizen groups are demonstrating aginst construction of the base. Some member of our church will go to the village from next week in order to participate in the demonstration."
"To sum up, the contents in the e-mail is about a small village, named Gangjung Maeul in Jeju island.
The military ministry of Korea is now trying to build a huge navy base. The planned navy base will be used for strengthening a military hegemony of the US government in the Northeast Asia. In addition, the constructing process will harshly destroy beautiful nature of Jeju island. Therefore residence of the village and some citizen groups are demonstrating aginst construction of the base. Some member of our church will go to the village from next week in order to participate in the demonstration."
English Fashion
English is a huge industry here. Korea spends an immense amount of money on teachers like myself every year. Most signs have English, including restaurants and stores...the first time I saw "Starbucks" written in Korean was last week when we went to a tourist street in Seoul. We've even been to restaurants where the menus were only in English. My friend recently started a new job where they repeatedly asked her about her English skills as it was clearly an important part of the hiring. She was hired, but uses zero English in the job. If she wants to transfer her 2-year degree to a school with a bachelor's program, she will have to take an English test, even if it would be unnecessary for her focus of study.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Blogger is garbage...
The blogger composition interface has become terrible and almost unworkable. I've been meaning to upload pictures, but it's been nearly impossible to have any sort of organization. In the future, posts will be much smaller. Here's a picture of my new tattoo:
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