trek up 남산 (Nam Mountain)

Today is my first Sunday at the home. Sunday is the one day out of the week that we allow ourselves time to rest/catch up with rest/meet people. It's bascially a day to get recharged~~!!!

In the morning, however, I was woken up by the sounds of kids getting ready for something. Everyone was going on a "walk" to NamSan and having already woken up, I decided to go with them. Our home's backyard is basically the mountain so getting there was no problem. But what I thought would be a walk was more like intense boot camp. I think we must have climbed 1000 stairs.. seriously, 30minutes of incline and finally at the end, we were at the top of the mountain. Here we proceeded to take a group picture then immediately started our trek back down. Then instead of going the long and proper way, we went through a "shortcut" down a dirt path. I ended up getting scratchs on my hands from sliding down the rocky parts and I was even wearing sneakers! The little kids (<10>

I am beginning to realize that just having fun and teaching English to the kids are not enough to get into the deeper things of the kids' hearts. Not that I am here to counsel them but in order to pray specifically we need to know details too. So I've been trying to brainstorm some ideas such as prayer for the kids before bed time, weekly bible study with the older girls, and getting prayer requests. Also, JM reminded me that we really need to bring the staff here to pray for the kids too. All these things I want to first give it up to the Lord and make sure that I'm not doing it out of my desire for deeds. If anyone has other suggestions, please tell me!!! I need all the brain and prayer power I can get!

pictures:

We went up like 1000 of these stairs. Even the little girl went up them all. No mercy~

The view from the top. To Koreans, this is the one of the best views.. one of the girls was like.. "it's so beautiful".. no wonder they Koreans want to go touring mountains so much when they come to the U.S.... this is all they got!

All of our kids and some teachers. Apparently, this is a hot spot and lots of movie sceans were taken here. If you look real close you can see how sweaty we all are.