Spa Time

So I have finished another work week and the stress has started to fade away. Thank you so much for all of your prayers, they are much appreciated! Of course the interesting things have not stopped by any means. On Monday morning we had a meeting to inform all of the teachers that we were going to move our offices up to the seventh floor so we could be next to all of the classrooms (they were on the sixth and the classrooms were on the seventh). Not only were we told that we had to pack up our desks, which we had set up four days before, but we were asked/told that we needed to help move all of the books/computers/desks upstairs on Friday night after work. Needless to say, we were in the mood for some relaxation after helping, which was not really bad at all. Regardless of the intensity of the work, the gin-jil-bang (Korean style spa) was calling our name. After paying my six bucks to get in, yes I said six, we got some peach tea and headed to the sweat room. The sweat room is set up like an authentic Indian sweat room with sage all around the walls and a lot of heat, of course there was no open flame burning sage in the middle though. After that we moved on to the hot rocks room where we sprawled out on thousands of small grape sized rocks that were heated...yeah, it was amazing. The rest of the night consisted of rooms such as a pine sauna, cold room(to cool off), massage chairs, and I finished off the night naked in a green tea bath in the men's side...it was quite refreshing! ;)
The rest of the weekend I just relaxed with some of my fellow teachers and just tried to get all settled in to my place. But something completely amazing and unexpected presented itself to me. Last week I had played back-up guitar for the worship team at church because a member had been unable to play. What I didn't know was that the girl who was not playing was the previous leader and was not playing to start phasing herself out because she is moving back to Canada. So after a few conversations with the pastor this week about my heart and desires, he asked if I would be comfortable being the new worship leader at church...my response was, "well, I wouldn't necessarily be comfortable with that, but I didn't move halfway around the world to stay in my comfort zone." So as of this afternoon, I will be the worship team leader at Onnuri English Ministry...wow, I feel a little in over my head. I have always had a desire in the back of my heart to be able to invest in a church in this way, who would have thought that I had to move to Korea for it to happen? I am excited about the added challenge and experiences that I will have because of this opportunity. Well that was basically my week. Oh, I did find all of the best places to find sweet clothes and suits which I am excited about. I also finished aquiring materials for my new granite coffee table that is in my living room...it is pretty cool too. I think that is all the important stuff, I hope all of those reading this had a great week! Until next time,

Dittoe