Living in Korea

A little over 3 months ago I moved to Korea with my husband. We recently got married. I made a promise within myself and to him that I would go where ever he went. I strongly believe that husband and wife should not be apart for too long if the situation allows. So here I am.

Here are some things that I have experienced so far.

The country of Korea is very beautiful. So beautiful in fact that, I find myself staring at the mountains and scenery and think I have never seen anything so beautiful in my life. I mean back at home, I used to take pictures of the lake at sunset, but the beauty here almost takes my breath away. To see mountains behind mountains and feel some peace is amazing. 

People here stare so hard. It is to the point to where it makes me feel uncomfortable sometimes.  We were at a rest stop on our way home. It was a fairly long drive. I remember this one lady. She was staring so hard that she literally bent over backwards to see me and my husband holding hands. At that time I wasn't settle in, so I didn't respond the way I do now. Now, I stare back until they look down or away. I think to myself "they have no idea how that makes me feel." I understand that it is not normal at all to see a couple like us. But, I think that they should show some respect. Some people here are just curious and want to know how we met or want to talk to me and converse with me. I would actually love that. I have learned very quickly to know the difference between curiosity and hatred. I look at the mountains when I feel overwhelmed.

The bugs are the scariest. Some are big as my hand! During this summer, I do not go outside at night unless I have no choice in the matter.(like coming home at night haha! One night, I stayed up until 2-3am. I see this giant centipede on the wall crawling very slow. Even when we went to kill it, it couldn't even move fast enough because it was to big!! My husband is laying next to me. Normally he isn't startled by bugs, but even he was like, WOW! It was bigger than my hand for sure. I thought to myself, after I started to cry, why are there bugs that big in this world and why are they crawling on my wall right before I go to sleep. I started sleep with a fly swatter and bug spray. No Joke!!

Who Gave You The Right?

I look around and see so many parents with their children. I rarely see good children. Children are a reflection of their parents, in most cases. One day I saw a child disobeying their parents. This was before I really knew Jesus. The child says to the mother, " Mommy or daddy, can I have this?" and the they say, "No!" Now, the child starts to cry really loud and scream and shows a lot of anger. The child is about 5 years old. I look at the whole situation from several feet back and think to myself, my mother would have knocked me to the ground.....better yet, that wouldn't have even happened because I knew the consequences of what will happen if I act up in any way. I know Jesus now and when I see children disrespecting their parents, it is very hard for me not to say something. The situation I had with my mother opened my eyes in a major way. Now, I Don't have any children but, this is what has been on my mind for a while now. Who in this world gave you the right to be born and have so much disrespect towards your mother who pushed you out into this world?! For you to be born and have this attitude as if you own something. You own absolutely nothing . Everything belongs to God. He created everything(Genesis 1, John 1,2). And he created your parents.  When you disrespect your mother and father, you disrespect God. 

Customer Service

I work at a local grocery store. The store has great deals on food, household items and clothes. And because we have these good deals, people flock to our store. Sometimes I think to myself, it's like 50 thousand people wake up and have one thing on their mind......lets go to(my store name). So there are customers from all walks of life coming there. But the ones who really get under my skin is the mean ones. There was this lady that just looked mean so I kind of prepared myself for whatever she was about to bring. I start to ring her out and she wanted to take an item off the order. I said to her that I don't have the authority to take that off. She said to me in the meanest way possible" I didn't ask of you had the authority to take it off". I tried to explain to her once more the situation and she got even more irritated with me so I completely ignored her and directed everything to her mother. I am very good at acting like someone does not exists. I did that so that I would not sin in the eyes of God. The day before yesterday a customer came in and said something that caught my attention. She said people are so caught up in employees to give good customer service, well people should be good customers!!!

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Yesterday was an interesting one for me. I stayed indoors all day. But I knew I needed to do laundry, so I got ready and went on over to the next building to put money on my card to wash clothes. I had $10 in one pocket and $10 in the other with my keys and phone. I pulled my keys out of my pocket and checked the mail. And headed out the back door. This girl was smiling at me but I don't really pay attention to her. So I walk listening to a song with lyrics like"Jesus you're beautiful to me". And as soon as I got there, I noticed $10 was missing. I knew I immediately dropped it somewhere. And it all comes to me what happened. When I pulled my keys out of my pocket, $10 dollars fell out. I had headphones on and didn't hear it hit the floor. And the girl smiled at me because she may have picked it up. So, as I am realizing all of this, I get infuriated with myself because I felt I was very irresponsible and careless. And as my anger is getting more and more serious, the Lord starts to speak to me letting me know that it's only $10 and that my riches are in heaven, not here.

Today was the day my mother was born. She would have been 60 years old. She died back in October of 2007. It was the saddest day of my life. I miss her very very much. She was an educated person. She read anything she could get her hands on if it had meaning to it. Her nic name was "The Walking Dictionary." Yesterday I sat in my house and cried because I knew today was coming. I am glad that I was not scheduled to work because when the tears come, it's a surprise even to me. I thank God that He brought me through the roughest time of my life. Without Him, I honestly do not know what kind of person I would be.

Soon to come.....

I know that I haven't written anything here, but it is coming soon :-)