Mondays-praise and worship at 8 am. Sets a great tone for the whole week. I get to dance and pray and sing. Yay!
Tuesdays-Weekly MB meeting at 6 pm. Say hello to new MBs and say goodbye to leaving MBs.
SKATE NIGHT! Skateboarding and breakdancing. Awesome. My favorites are the little 4-6 year olds on their skateboards.
Wednesdays-Bible studies, sometimes
Thursdays-Praise and Worship. This is usually the highlight of the week. We get to cry and release all of our worries to God.
Fridays-we're gonna start having movie nights.
Saturdays-weekend trips!!!!
Sundays-church and more weekend trips!
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Monday, February 23, 2009
Maps of Hawai'i & Saying Goodbye to the Koreans
Maps of Hawai'i:
http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/namerica/usstates/lgcolor/hicolor.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii#Geography_and_environment
This weekend was awesome! My Korean friends were all leaving this weekend, so we had a long extended goodbye weekend together. Daniel (Bumsoo Opa) rented this sick white SUV and we went up to Mauna Kea, which is one of the world's best observatories. We ate at Huli Sue's, which has a well deserved reputation as one of the best pork ribs and banana cream pies on the Island if not all of Hawai'i. Unfortunately they were out of ice cream, so we couldn't try their amazing milkshakes.
It was still an amazing sunset, and when we got to the top, it was all cloudy. It usually never clears, but we all prayed, and LO and BEHOLD, the clouds parted and we saw amazing amazing stars!!!!!!!!!!!! In case you didn't read my previous blog, it's one of the world's best observatories. Go during the new moon, as the full moon usually gives off too much light. But I learned some new constellations.
The next morning we woke early and hit up Waipio Valley, Akaka Falls
http://www.hawaiiweb.com/Hawaii/html/sites/akaka_falls_state_park.html, Hilo and Laupahoehoe Point Beach Park. There is this great mochi shop called Two Ladies Kitchen which has the BEST strawberry mochi. No, I don't consider myself a foodie, but after hanging out with a serious foodie (Bumsoo works in a Japanese restaurant in Korea and aspires to be the next Iron Chef....) and an amateur foodie named Hye Won, (she takes pictures of the food presentations like Anna Ing) I think I'm a notch below foodie.
I miss my Koreans. FOUR left today, which was awful. Two more leave on the 27th, and then it will only be me and Yuri. It's so huge having them here, and it's gonna be so weird without them. Their sweet sweet sweetness will be truly truly missed.
That's definitely the hardest thing about being a Mission Builder. Friends are always coming and going. You get to know people so well, and then poof, they're gone!!!!!!
http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/namerica/usstates/lgcolor/hicolor.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii#Geography_and_environment
This weekend was awesome! My Korean friends were all leaving this weekend, so we had a long extended goodbye weekend together. Daniel (Bumsoo Opa) rented this sick white SUV and we went up to Mauna Kea, which is one of the world's best observatories. We ate at Huli Sue's, which has a well deserved reputation as one of the best pork ribs and banana cream pies on the Island if not all of Hawai'i. Unfortunately they were out of ice cream, so we couldn't try their amazing milkshakes.
It was still an amazing sunset, and when we got to the top, it was all cloudy. It usually never clears, but we all prayed, and LO and BEHOLD, the clouds parted and we saw amazing amazing stars!!!!!!!!!!!! In case you didn't read my previous blog, it's one of the world's best observatories. Go during the new moon, as the full moon usually gives off too much light. But I learned some new constellations.
The next morning we woke early and hit up Waipio Valley, Akaka Falls
http://www.hawaiiweb.com/Hawaii/html/sites/akaka_falls_state_park.html, Hilo and Laupahoehoe Point Beach Park. There is this great mochi shop called Two Ladies Kitchen which has the BEST strawberry mochi. No, I don't consider myself a foodie, but after hanging out with a serious foodie (Bumsoo works in a Japanese restaurant in Korea and aspires to be the next Iron Chef....) and an amateur foodie named Hye Won, (she takes pictures of the food presentations like Anna Ing) I think I'm a notch below foodie.
I miss my Koreans. FOUR left today, which was awful. Two more leave on the 27th, and then it will only be me and Yuri. It's so huge having them here, and it's gonna be so weird without them. Their sweet sweet sweetness will be truly truly missed.
That's definitely the hardest thing about being a Mission Builder. Friends are always coming and going. You get to know people so well, and then poof, they're gone!!!!!!
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Letter to brother Chung
Haha, that is so funny that you are eating all this Hawai'ian food. I really love the macadamia nuts here. The pineapples are pretty good, too. I really miss all of the good cheap food in Boston though. All of the Asian restaurants here are really expensive and not even that good. I got Thai noodles and it was terrible. Well, it didn't taste like Thai food AT ALL! I can't believe that you are skiing. It seems weird that anyone is skiing right now when it is 80-85 degrees here everyday. All I can say is that I am super glad not to be freezing my butt off.
Yeah, it is a really small world, especially New England and New York. Thanks for letting me know how things are going over on the East Coast. I miss it a little over there.
But I am really glad to be here, especially all of the fun stuff we do. Yesterday I did yoga off the beach with my two friends and her mother at this church called Living Stones. It's so funny, they call it Y.ielding tO. G.od's A.uthority. I have seen so many whales and dolphins off the coast because this is the peak season (January to April) when they travel down from Alaska. It is so incredible. I really want to swim with whales and dolphins. I am glad you saw the pictures. I am going to try to put a lot more up on facebook and my blog soon.
big hug, Sung Yun
Yeah, it is a really small world, especially New England and New York. Thanks for letting me know how things are going over on the East Coast. I miss it a little over there.
But I am really glad to be here, especially all of the fun stuff we do. Yesterday I did yoga off the beach with my two friends and her mother at this church called Living Stones. It's so funny, they call it Y.ielding tO. G.od's A.uthority. I have seen so many whales and dolphins off the coast because this is the peak season (January to April) when they travel down from Alaska. It is so incredible. I really want to swim with whales and dolphins. I am glad you saw the pictures. I am going to try to put a lot more up on facebook and my blog soon.
big hug, Sung Yun
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Waimea, Spinner Dolphins, and Luau
Every day here is full. This past Sunday, Feb 1st, was a relaxing hour long drive to Waimea with Anthony and Robert. They are both Canadians, and sadly both leaving this week. That's one of the hardest things about being a Mission Builder-you bond with people and then they leave.
We drove up to the northern part of the Big Island, my first time up there. It's cattle country, home to one of the largest ranches in the U.S., Parker Ranch. It has around 135,000 cattle. The landscape is bizarre and beautiful. The cacti are like sculpture, popping out of the ground among the grazing cattle. The mountains are reminiscent of Bolivia and China, and definitely give you a feeling of being in another country. I often feel that way being here, with the incredibly varied and lush plant and wildlife.
We didn't have time for a horseback ride, since I needed to be back by 5 pm for a luau, so we stopped on the mountainside for a nice half hour nap. It was quite restful and peaceful.
The artwork in this one gallery we stopped in was incredible. He paints landscapes as if they were a picture, with a glass bowl effect.
We got back in time, but my friend Jim was not around, so I hurried down to the pier, and as I walked along the wall, I heard a woman exclaim, "What is that?" and a man who lived here for 12 years said, "Spinner Dolphins!" He said this was very very rare that they came this close to the pier, and had only seen anything like that 4 or 5 times. Incredible. I was so excited and sad that I wasn't wearing my bathing suit as I wanted nothing more than to jump off the pier and join them. But it seemed that the people on paddleboards and swimming were pushing them away. At least I got to watch them break the water gracefully with their fins, sometimes 7-10 at the same time. And they would sometimes break out of the water completely doing complete 720 degree spins in the air and dropping back in. It made my heart soar. I had been praying the day before for God to send me some dolphins and whales.
We drove up to the northern part of the Big Island, my first time up there. It's cattle country, home to one of the largest ranches in the U.S., Parker Ranch. It has around 135,000 cattle. The landscape is bizarre and beautiful. The cacti are like sculpture, popping out of the ground among the grazing cattle. The mountains are reminiscent of Bolivia and China, and definitely give you a feeling of being in another country. I often feel that way being here, with the incredibly varied and lush plant and wildlife.
We didn't have time for a horseback ride, since I needed to be back by 5 pm for a luau, so we stopped on the mountainside for a nice half hour nap. It was quite restful and peaceful.
The artwork in this one gallery we stopped in was incredible. He paints landscapes as if they were a picture, with a glass bowl effect.
We got back in time, but my friend Jim was not around, so I hurried down to the pier, and as I walked along the wall, I heard a woman exclaim, "What is that?" and a man who lived here for 12 years said, "Spinner Dolphins!" He said this was very very rare that they came this close to the pier, and had only seen anything like that 4 or 5 times. Incredible. I was so excited and sad that I wasn't wearing my bathing suit as I wanted nothing more than to jump off the pier and join them. But it seemed that the people on paddleboards and swimming were pushing them away. At least I got to watch them break the water gracefully with their fins, sometimes 7-10 at the same time. And they would sometimes break out of the water completely doing complete 720 degree spins in the air and dropping back in. It made my heart soar. I had been praying the day before for God to send me some dolphins and whales.
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