T - 5days

T- 5 days till I move out of my homestay and get paid for phone tutoring!! I think the mom would like me out sooner as she took away my keys earlier this week and asked for my passport # (which I did not give to her).

I have in writing that I can stay until 2/29 and even though it's pretty uncomfortable living here and the mom barely looks at me....I'm staying in order to save more money. Earlier this week we had pizza for dinner (first time) and Sophie told me that it was because she did really well on her English level-up exam that she had taken a few weeks ago.....while I was still tutoring her....interesting... :-/ But in all seriousness I really have to keep praying that I leave here with no bitterness or anger towards the mother....only with God will this be possible....
I will be moving to Yoksam to stay at the SWS guesthouse. They are letting me stay there for the first month or so and hopefully by then something else will open up. For the first few months they're letting me stay in a much bigger room with a tv, and kitchen/dining area, for the same price as a single room with just a bed, table and chair. I will have to move to a smaller room probably in April or May. They actually only have 7 rooms in total and in the summer it could get crowded as more people come to visit. I also suggested that if I helped them out with certain things, maybe they could give me a bigger discount. As it is now I will have to pay $450/month which is really good considering I don't have to pay for utilities, cable, internet, furniture, etc. But if I can pay less that will only help me save more.

My phone tutoring is going pretty well and I really like the people that I talk to. It's very easy to have conversations with a majority of them. There are 2 people who I've never spoken to yet- they never answer my call! haha- but I was told this is normal. I bascially just talk to them for 15 minutes about anything. Our calls are recorded and I have to make corrections to what they said. It's sometimes a bit challenging because it requires me to really know my "English"! Or sometimes I email them news articles and we talk about them. Best of all- I can do it from home!!

Since I gave up facebook for Lent, I will upload my pics here!

Thursday night went to an all you can eat meat place with some new friends from church.


@ 고기킹 with Sara, Chris and David


Beef and duck sizzling away


raw meat! YUM!!