When you ask someone how their life has been, people will often give short, non-detailed answers. "Fine" or "Good" seem to be about standard fare. I think that people often think that their life is less interesting than other people. (Of course, there is the exception to that, but those people are often full of themselves, and who wants to talk to them anyway?)
So, here's an update on what has become boring and everyday to us, but maybe it'll be more interesting to you.
My (Jon's) school is still going well. My classroom is on the third floor, which I normally really enjoy. It's got less children traffic, less noise, it's warmer in the winter but hotter in the summer (though fewer mosquitoes), and I all-round just enjoy it. However, I've discovered a new favorite thing: going downstairs to the first floor at about 5:50. That's after the first class (right now I'm teaching from 5:00 - 9:00 one week and until 10:00 the next) and it's when all the grade 4 & 5 students are coming and going. If I go downstairs at that time, I'm greeted with a chorus of "Hi teacher!", "Mr. Jon, hello!" "Teacher Jon, hi!" and so on. It's a lot of fun.
Emily and I have started up Korean classes again. We each go twice a week, though on different days. Emily is in the intermediate, and it's going well, though difficult. I am taking Beginner 2, and I can keep up enough, if my partner and I work together to make sure both of us are understanding. Korean is a beautiful language, though difficult to learn. Everything has to do with the suffixes. Apparently it doesn't happen accidentally.
Church is going well, also. We are making good friends and we're really starting to fit in. We love the preaching and it's a great place to spend time in God's presence with other Christians.
After church is our Bible study groups, which lasts until four (blech!), but then Emily and I have taken to going to the sauna (in Korean, 짐찔방, I think. That may not come up on your computer, depending on the fonts you've got installed.) It's really relaxing and a great way to just end the weekend and start the week.
Right now we are in the midst of trying to figure out what we're going to do for the next five or so years. Both of us want to go back to school and (money wise), Korea is the perfect place to do that. We do need to find schools that will be good enough to accomodate our particular needs (Emily's got a good thing with the IBOLT option, but I'm not so lucky).
Our computer has been broken as of late, but we should have it back from the service center by tomorrow. Apparently, it was just too full of dust, so it was overheating and shutting down. It was incredibly frustrating, let me tell you, but it's good to have it all fixed up. It is really dusty here - if you sweep your floor one day, it will likely need to be swept within hours. Nobody knows where this dust comes from, but it is everywhere.
Having Emily's parents here was really nice. It helped to open up the wonder of Korea once again. After enough frustrating and embarrassing experiences (which we have had enough of over the past 8 months), you can sometimes just give up on shopping or trying new things. Having the Jacksons, though, helped us to try some new things. We had a grand ol' time together and it made us really miss Canada.
Right now Emily and I are in a PC room - an internet cafe where you pay about $1 an hour (it's an expensive one) to use computers and play all sorts of online games. StarCraft is among the most popular, with a national league and people that earn hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to play this computer game professionally.
Well, that was a long and essentially uneventful blog post. Life in itself is often interesting, though, which is something we are learning.
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