Moving to Korea

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Today I called TeachKorea to see what was missing in my application to ensure I had a post in South Korea.  They need my police clearance and a certified copy of my degree, YunOck told me.  Promptly I sent them the documents via Speed Services.  I await my contract.  

I went to gym today also.  Kerry arrived shortly after my arrival, and convinced me to join the spinning class.  I sang along to most of the songs, which meant I enjoyed the class.  After class, I was invited for dinner at Pascale's place, and I was to bring the dessert.  I got Bar One ice cream.  It is truly delicious and most certainly counteracted any loss of calories.  

The process of moving seems a mix of memories, nostalgia, stress and nervous anticipation.  The procedure is not cut and dried, so I keep wondering what to do next.  What is important is not to have too much luggage, nor to forget important things behind, and to leave the place clean.  And a proper farewell to my new and old friends seems essential too.  

I keep thinking, What makes a man happy?  I know that being in company of others makes me happy, yet I am not the type to seek it out.  As a matter of fact, at the time of being offered I am inclined to resist, seeking rather to do nothing, but doing nothing can be devastating.  

When Solene left for France a week ago, I thought to myself, there is actually nowhere I'd rather go than Normandy, France.  That is where I would love to be because it's France, because they speak French, and because it seems romantic.  Why Korea?  

I remembered my strategy:  go East and learn.  Learn about another culture so foreign to your own that you have to remember your identity in Christ.  If you don't go East now, you never will...but is that really true?  There is a time for everything, God says.  Is this the time for Korea?  I can't believe I still have doubts.  I have given up everything already to go there.  It's only natural to have fear, I hear people say.  I am not interested in the natural.  I am interested in the supernatural.  It's supernatural to have faith that I will overcome my fears.   

My intentions are to make my apartment into a sanctuary of prayer.  My intention is to keep my place clean.  My intention is to write a blog every day.  My intention is to especially dedicate myself to my work for the first 3-4 months.  My intention is to go Yongi Cha's church in Seoul, and to find one close to home. My intention is to go walking, cycling, hiking, skiing, dancing and singing, and to find like-minded people with whom to do these things.  My intention is to take photographs.  My intention is to plan a trip to the Great Wall of China thereafter, to visit my sister and James, and Steffi and her family, in New Zealand, and to visit Japan.  My intention is to create an online and/or printed project of my trip to Korea.  

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