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Life continues. I got to walk in monsoon season this week. I went on a long hike last Saturday and over-extended a muscle in my foot. I walked down the river the other day just to listen to the silence and bought corn on the cob at a little market. I think I'll eat it tomorrow for lunch.

I don't lie

To say I have a lot going on right now would seem so unrealistically large an understatement that it might pass into the realm of falsehood.

In other news, I have now successfully breached the six-month barrier of living abroad. It has been 10 weeks since my last 3-day weekend, and I'm feeling it, but look forward to a long hike, a hot shower, and a lot of extra sleep the 11th, 12th and 13th.

The Truth is that I'm only writing this to pacify my sister. As most of the people who've spoken to me can attest, there's not much I have to say that's fit to print. Life gets hard, but I'm really thankful for all the people the Lord has built into mine who make it much easier to handle.

If you want to know what I've been doing lately: (This is complete rubbish, you don't have to read it.)

I've taken (in June especially) to measuring my time in Korea by the other teachers' contracts. Ray just left the end of June, Steve leaves the end of August and Luke is out of here the end of September. Fortunately for me we recently had two new additions to our little set, Jesse and Cassie arrived the end of June! They're both really sweet, wonderful young women, and I look forward to getting to know them better.

On the fourth we all went out and had hamburgers and french fries (because we couldn't come up with anything more American than that) and then while everyone else went off to enjoy their various festivities Luke and I took a walk down the river. It's been pretty (relatively) cold and rainy this last week, so the evening was nice. (When I say, "Evening," you should really read, "Night." On my Korean schedule 'evening' begins at approximately 10 pm.)

These last couple of weeks I've been teaching SAT classes in the evenings. It's really fun and I enjoy the students a lot. Ostensibly this will continue for the next two months until the students are sent back to the US for school, poor things.

Other than that I've been sleeping . . . lots and lots of laying in bed staring at the ceiling and talking to God.

Job 2:13

"Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights. No one said a word to him, because they saw how great his suffering was."

Please pray for my family.

. . . like with pie

Sometimes people are layered like that. There's something totally different underneath than what's on the surface. But sometimes, there's a third, even deeper level, and that one is the same as the top surface one. Like with pie.

- Joss Whedon, Zach Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon