wonderful 2019

Today is the last day of 2019. How I get here and now... From the first day of 2019, it has been really fast, it seemed like flying... Time flies... This year, in January, I had a chance to visit USA, visit my uncle living  in Los Angeles, California... it was a really great opportunity to travel USA with some of my realtives including nieces. Though I could not visit and travel all around the country, because it was such a large territory... I could enjoy traveling and experiencing very different culture and people. It was about 20 days, all told... After returning home from the US, I tried to write my essays on the trip. I tried to write my travel and do it with relationships with my past, my feelings about some moveis made in US. I am thinking of reorganizing the written things, publishing them into a new e book.

At the earlier part of thiis year, I still had some troubles with my members at church. I could not understand the different system, different mindset, teachings, sermons of this church. Though I admitted that those sermons and teachings are correct in light of the Scriptures, I found it very hard to become familiar with them. That is why I had problems with a leader of my small family group at church.  Pastor of the church took a  very imiportant role in my  becoming friends with the leader again.  He listened carefully to me, when I opend my heart and told them my stories and feelings. It was entirely on account of the pastor's deep understanding and mediating between the leader and me that I could be feeling accepted by them thus I decided to remain in the church. I still appreciate it for the pastor. and i am grateful to God.

 

In addition to these, I dared to start a new business, teaching business, for my living. As I got older, though I took pains to get a new job around the churches and ecumenical organizations, it was almost impossible to get one. and I had to admit that I am old enough, or I am too old to get a new job at any organization. Though it was not a pleasant thing at all, it was a kind of moment when I dared to try a new thing for a living. Teaching speaking English to adults, not just kids or students. I mean to have  English free talking classes for adults. It took me a courage to start it. I tried to make advertisement posters and I put them around some places that I have known. I am still doing that now.  THough not that many adult students are registering my classes, I will keep on doing it in the next year or in the future as well.