Missing home

This week I:

• Drank chocolate milk for the first time in a long time
• Kicked a student out of my class when, at the end of a difficult lesson, and as a last straw, he started breaking colored pencils just to tick me off!
• Taught my students the phrase "knee high by the fourth of July" after reading an article about farming in Iowa. Go Iowa!
• Really missed home
• Worked out by myself at the health center
• Tried to discern the plot of a Korean drama from facial expressions and music as I viewed the program from a small screen on my treadmill
• Used a cell phone calculator to convert my weight from kg into pounds (Last week, I realized I had gained weight since I've been to Korea. I know this weight has to be credited to the quantity I've been eating and not the quality. I've eaten more fruits and vegetables than ever before! Luckily, this week I lost one kilo.)
• Listened to Ingram Hill's "Will I ever make it home?"...a few times in a row. Felt stupid for thinking about home so much, so early. Wished I were busier and had less time to think.
• Struggled with Insomnia and planned a few lessons during my hours awake
• Downloaded my first Kpop song, "Nobody But You," by the Wonder Girls, in an effort to relate to my students better.
• Incorporated pop stars Minzy and CL from the group 2ne1 into a reading exercise.
• Spoke with Justin about my host family situation and told him that I thought the price of food was way too high. $250 per month! We're going to work something out. Yay!
• Missed Nick a lot
• Gained a few office hours during which I will help students with their homework
• Met with my new friend Su Jong Hwang and arranged to meet her and her friend for a Bible study/Korea study group on Sunday.
• Concluded that it is worth it!

I realized that I'm going to have bad days and hard times no matter what country I'm in. Sure, it's difficult to be in a foreign land on a bad day. But going home wouldn't make me happier. Just more comfortable.