I am happy as a bucket of clams. Healthy, growing mentally and spiritually, and surrounded by delightful friends.
I'm sorry I haven't written, but my life schedule changed a bit.
I'm trying to study constantly for the November exam in Korean, I got a 2 (high beginner) last November and I want a 3 (low intermediate) this November, just six months away. The 3 is not just somewhat harder than the 2---it's several orders of magnitude harder than the 2.
For starters, I have 2,500 vocabulary words to learn. Intermediate verbs like "to refrain" "to distort" "to stagnate," must be mastered, not just in their basic form but in their past, future, causative and passive forms. I'm halfway through the word list, currently.
Next, I have to master short essay-writing for the test. Nothing too fancy, just 5-8 sentences on any given prompt they produce.
It's hard, but I can do it. I want it, and I will dedicate myself to achieving it.
The World of Language: It Awaits.
But while I used to use my free class periods at work to jot down notes for blog posts, I now use that time for study. I'm happy with that, but I worry that I'm not updating my family often enough.
So for now I propose a Sunday Update--one post a week, hopefully containing notes from the previous days. It's a positive solution to the zero updates that result from my new studies, :-)
The kids are glorious as always. Nothing so lovely as their hearts, nothing so bright as their futures, I'm so lucky to be here, to be placed by God in precisely this location.
