FML

Halloween 09.
So my story begins on the day when costa garage had to get cleaned and they kicked the cars out. I parked on the street thinking yes! I didn't forget I was proud of myself. So I parked on the street. After I just left my car there and didn't move it. I had so many opportunities too it was almost like god was poking at me to move it. I let my roommate take my spot because he needed a place to park for the new few days. Then I had my second opportunity my roommate gave back the garage key but I decided whatever I'll just park in there later. Then I check today and I see my mirror on the ground and I go to open my door and its stuck. I pull it and it bends like the front park because someone crashed into it. I have to use the passenger side to get in now. DAMN hit and run! it was probably some drunk guy going home from a halloween party. I also have 2 midterms this week. I came to CSE to study but it became KCM gbm and I left my book at home.
Thus I end this post with FML!

All nighter awakening

I realized that though our human brains can store vivid memories they are not like hard drive thats store exactly what you put into them. I couldn't sleep because I started to think about life. I really started thinking about how much god has blessed me this past summer. I started to think about how much it would suck to forget about all the experiences I have had and all that I have learned this past summer. My friend once told me the best time to write is when you are sleep deprived and its really late. It's 6 am and I have not slept this late all school year. Back to what I was going to write. I really wanted to buy a journal after meeting my roommate in korea who had a journal. I made fun of him saying it was a diary but I really realized a journal or "diary" is such an awesome thing to have. Pictures speak a million words but so do diaries and journals. MY VOICE NEEDS TO BE HEARD! I need to remember all the blessing god has placed in my life and I need to write about them and my lessons so later on in life I can look back and be like dang man GOD is AWESOME! I'm going to start this journal or blog with my testimony and memories that I have had this past summer. Starting with Texas and Mexico and Korea.

Highlights of Texas got to know my girl friends parents and really got to feel their love. Seeing how her dad lives his life is such a blessing and encouragement to me. He is almost like my role model. Also the advice that the older men told me about marriage will be something I hope to remember. Realizing what a prideful mess I am and god really humbling me. Toiling under the sun as it is written in Ecclesiastes. Exploring the ways of using the restroom. Realizing what true happiness is and that worldly things can only give you so much pleasure in life. There more to life than just money and riches and comforts. True joy and happiness comes from living a life that is pleasing to god. I almost forgot about what is most important in my life. I guess it goes both ways in regards to how easy it is to realize the big picture in life and how easy it is to forget. I was so stressed this whole week over stupid things. I forgot what I learned from missions which is there is no use of stressing over such useless things. After really thinking about how the people live their lives in Mexico I feel ashamed for being so worried and stressed about my academics. I'm worried about what kind of wetsuit I'm going to wear while people in other parts of the world are worried about if they're going to get eat the next meal. I understand why we have to constantly read the bible and constantly seek god because it's so damn easy for us to forget what we have learned. We know it says in the bible to not worry about tomorrow and about what you are going to wear cause god provides but were so damn stupid. It was a real blessing that I arrived at the missionaries place before my team because I was given the opportunity to conversate with him and get to know him. We had a 2-3 hour drive to the main city to pick up the rest of the dfc team. He lived a ordinary life he didnt know he was going to be called to become a missionary but god called him and he left everything he had in texas and came to mexico. He had a pretty successful clothing business that he passed on to his brother.

Korea was an awesome experience. I made so many close friends in such a short time period. I really hope that I can continue to have a friendship with them over the years to come. God really showed me a broader scheme of faith. Meeting people who were so bold in their faith just really encouraged me in my walk. Two of my teammates sold their cars to go on missions. They are so open and so filled with joy and they love to express how god is working in their lives. My roommate would pray for me when we are in bed at night. How awesome is that man. I was so encouraged and blessed by his prayer to make me become more bold with my faith. I learned so much in that camp. God placed me in a leadership position that I will not forget. I ran a english camp with 2 others. One 23 and the other like 27 and we worked well. We were the dynamic trio. We even had a hide out slash office called the north pole. Planning out the english camp, looking at the blue prints, making up schedule and activities. Leading staff meeting, and leading praise. Translating for the whole staff. I was put into a leadership role that I have never experienced even as president. I really felt like that was a job for me. It was really hard and stressful but I love that environment I love seeing all that work and thought as a finished product. The multi million dollar camp was run by 3 random Americans and it flowed and worked out well. We managed to schedule 400 kids into a scarce amount of rooms. I think I would enjoy working in something like that. Having to be responsible for everything that goes wrong and planning out and presenting the plans, that is something I can do. I don't know if accounting is going to suite me but hopefully its just a stepping stone. Who knows I might end up working there they did offer me a job. Through the english camp I got to meet my native korean friends. They served as TAs in the camp. They all thought I was like 26 years old because of the way I ran the meetings. But they were shocked that I was not 26 and they were even more shocked that I was younger than most of them by one year or technically a few months because of my early birthday. Hanging out with them really improved my korean. I really got to understand what life would be like to live in korea. I traveled on my own most of the time in korea. I really experienced the life that my co-leader told me about. I could've gotten kid napped or like killed and no one would've known. I some how found my way around very easily and met up with my friends really easily even though I didn't have a cell phone. Meeting old friends from ecuador spain and saudi and old nunahs and hyungs was awesome. They showed so much love to me even though I only met them for a short period of time 2 years ago. My cousin is getting pretty dang big now as a rapper. My korean friends looked him up and I found out he was in CB Mass which is a pretty og rap group that's pretty popular. He is always so fun and nice when I go visit. That night when I was exploring Ilsan on my own is such a interesting experience. I felt so free and different. Meeting up by the river to eat some bomb chicken with an old family friend was cool too he's getting married now. A friends oppa kicking a taxi car and eating suhluhng tang. Meeting some awesome people and exploring korea and getting a tour of the real cool places. Eating pig skin, chicken feet and chicken butt off the streets with some rice drink. Meeting artist and music producers and eating raw meet with them. Sleeping at jjim jil bang and bathing in them. Jubillee church and meeting an old friend.

I almost forgot about Jeju straight up one back pack on my back some money and no plans or ideas on what to do. My future roommate and I just decided to go on a trip to jeju. We had some adventures and memories haha. Taxi driver screwing us over taking us to the middle of no where and making us pay for it. Random walk to the beach at night to see a dark ocean. Sleeping in the most grimy bug filled place ever. There were sheets that were filled with bed bugs or something because we got tore up with bug bites. Ian was like lets leave right now at like 4 am and we were so down. But I just some how fell asleep while he was trying to catch a mosquito for an hour. Riding an unknown bus back to where we were suppose to go in the first place. Eating some fresh fish right next to the ocean. Bus ride to south side where we meet zeniper.

Exert from essay

I met Zeniper this past summer on a tropical Island called Jeju which is located under Korea. He is probably the only Korean Rastafari Beach bum in Korea. I went to the island because I wanted to surf there and I met him by the surf rental area on the beach. There are only about 15 surfers on that Island. I got to know him better because he was able to speak some English to me. He invited me and my friend into his tent because we had no idea where to go or where to eat. He was a bum but not just a bum but a sophisticated bum that was a bum for fun. He was going to return to the capital after a few more months. He saved up a money to live on the beach for half a year. He lives in a tent and just eats instant food everyday. He is very skinny because of his diet. He invited me and my friend into his tent to eat some instant noodles. He was very generous and hospitable even though he lived in a tent on the beach. We started to talk to him about his life and how he ended up there. He said to us he believes in destiny and loves meeting new people from around the world.

Surfing in jeju and looking at some natural beauties ie. waterfalls weird shaped rock where they filmed a korean drama. Sleeping in jjimjil bangs. Spending time in the main city of jeju where we were suppose to go in the first place. Having some fun meeting a professional bass guitarist.

Trip Log

LAX CA to Mcallen TX airport. 3 hour drive to San Antonio TX. 10 hour bus drive down to San Luis Potosi, Mexico. San Luis Potosi Airport to LAX CA. LAX to Incheon, Korea. Gimpo airport to Jeju Airport. Jeju to Gimpo korea. Incheon to LAX. and a bunch of subway rides all over Seoul.

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