Friday, January 04, 2008
The Past Year, The New Year
I'm excited for this new year, this fresh start. This past year was amazing but hard in many ways too. I got to teach children (which was wonderful!), freeze my butt off in the Korean winter, see beautiful Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. I got to live a relatively uncomplicated simple life in a high rise in Seoul, Korea. I moved back to Austin and got my own apartment, a new job tutoring college students, reconnected with friends, got back into things at church, and found an awesome small group. I got to be with my nuclear family for three days before Christmas, which is so rare that we are all in the same place for more than two hours. I lost a little weight which is a lot for a small person!!! I figured out that taking a mega multi-vitamin makes me have migraines way way way less than I did, another amazing quality of life victory!!!! Oh and I learned to knit! And one of my best friends had a little girl named Althea, what a blessing. Another best friend had major surgery, but is recovering well. Unfortunately, I ended this year with feelings of being a little defeated, and broken, but I think that this is one of the inevitable periods of life that just have to be worked through. And in reflection, I am not so sad but just happy to be alive and to be warm and fed and healthy, with people that love me around.
I'm excited for this new year, this fresh start. This past year was amazing but hard in many ways too. I got to teach children (which was wonderful!), freeze my butt off in the Korean winter, see beautiful Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. I got to live a relatively uncomplicated simple life in a high rise in Seoul, Korea. I moved back to Austin and got my own apartment, a new job tutoring college students, reconnected with friends, got back into things at church, and found an awesome small group. I got to be with my nuclear family for three days before Christmas, which is so rare that we are all in the same place for more than two hours. I lost a little weight which is a lot for a small person!!! I figured out that taking a mega multi-vitamin makes me have migraines way way way less than I did, another amazing quality of life victory!!!! Oh and I learned to knit! And one of my best friends had a little girl named Althea, what a blessing. Another best friend had major surgery, but is recovering well. Unfortunately, I ended this year with feelings of being a little defeated, and broken, but I think that this is one of the inevitable periods of life that just have to be worked through. And in reflection, I am not so sad but just happy to be alive and to be warm and fed and healthy, with people that love me around.
