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A Day in the Life

…of a wandering tourist/expat/hyphenated-american in Seoul
7:30 – Think long and hard about getting up

8:15 – Take the subway and get stampeded by the public masses
9:00 Teach English to kids who don’t want to learn
1:30- Lunch with unemployed restless friend or w/private students. Today was with restless friend.
2:00 – Still discussing bad and good movies over sulong-tang

3:00 – Follow up lunch with overpriced coffee at Homestead
4:00 – Unsuccessfully tried to work on poster for NK ministry at church.
5:00  – Eat early dinner of spicy chicken with some interesting church folks.
7:00 – At NK prayer meeting listening to Sue from Lighthouse Foundation speak about running three bakeries, serving orphanages and starting a disability center in the NK.  Learned that only high-level diplomatic talks can change anything for that regime is completely wrong; real change happens in the heart, one person at a time.  Authority is in truth; truth is love. MLK. Mother Theresa. Sue. The work of NGOs, non-profits, churches, ministries, missions, ordinary people are not just band-aid short-term solutions as I once believed but is productive in the long-run.

i’m hopeful again.