January Update!

To all of my faithful blog followers sorry for the delay. I guess sometimes I think regular life isn't interesting enough to blog about. I maybe took 10 pictures all of January.
Well there are a few things to share as 2010 is under way. This past month we were able to pay off the rest of my student debt! So now we are debt free! It is an amazing feeling and we are so thankful that there are opportunities like this to make money.
I have started to take some Korean lessons again. Our friend Brenden came back to Korea a couple weeks ago and was interested in taking lessons so I brought him to some I knew about. Now I am attending as well. It's only once a week for 2 hours and really laid back so that is nice.
It's just the end of winter vacation for the students so we will go back to normal teaching hours again. Last month we were teaching in the mornings from 9-1. Now it's back to afternoons 1-5.
Having the afternoons free was really nice. I was able to help coach basketball with one of our friends. He works for an international school in Seoul and coaches the girls team. Also lots of time for reading and working out and meeting up with friends for dinner.
It's really interesting how long it takes to build friendships. We've been here 9 months now and we are really just starting to connect with people. It's definitely a blessing.
So our time here is getting shorter very quickly. We are planning and thinking about what's next but nothing has totally unfolded yet. Still considering going to Haiti in the fall but with the earth quake nothing is for sure because the ministry compound we would be going to needs to be rebuilt a lot. Please pray for us as we make decisions and ponder the future.
Chris is taking a break from basketball this month. His next league starts in March. We have been taking in the sporting events though. Last night we went to a hockey game in Anyang. It was a lot of fun. The league is made up of teams from Japan, China and one from Korea. Anyways last nights win sealed the first place spot for the Korea team. It's pretty fun to see hockey in Korea. Makes us excited for the Olympics. We are still trying to figure out how we are going to watch/stream some of the games.
Once a month we are involved in a homeless ministry at Suwon Station near our home. Last time we went we brought everyone long underwear and a meal. It was so neat to get to know these men better and encourage them. A few are Christians and they sang some hymns for us. It was a huge blessing and I am looking forward to the next time we go. Their stories are unreal a few of them used to be government officials but in the late 1990's Korea had a lot of economic trouble and many people lost their jobs and never recovered.
Well that's about all for today. Thanks for reading and following our journey here in Korea.
Next time I will have pictures. :)