So NK and her family and I went to Jingujon, and some cool restaurants, and to church. She told me to journal it so I wouldn't forget.

지혜 says she really wants to keep in touch, and wrote me a really sweet letter that almost made me cryㅠㅠ. I feel like I miss her already. In her letter she said we should Skype twice a week, and I'm totally up for that. In fact, that might be what I look forward to most right now.

Oh man, God just put me in my place. I'm not even gonna blog about what just happened. You guys can ask me about it in private conversation.

My flight boards in 40 minutes, so I'm just wasting time now. Every Korean company under the sun offers wifi here, so it took me a few minutes to find one that was free.

I bought my last 녹차 라때 (idk if I spelled that right) just now. It's one of my favorite drinks here. I thought about getting some alcohol from the airport bar while I waited, but the cheapest thing on the menu is "Absolute Vodka" ($8), and It's probably not prudent for me to get drunk this close to my flight time. --and although I'm pretty sure it's just a shot, I wanted to "sit and drink", not "down shot(s) and leave", and beer is disgusting and they don't offer wine.

A native English speaker thought I was not American a while ago... am I getting an accent?

I'm slightly disgusted by super-conservatism now. Not that HGU or Korea for that matter was by any means what I'm talking about now. I'm referencing my previous mindset. My mind has been opened now to some new things which I think are worth discussing. Now, without being written off as a hater, or a liberal (because I'm not. I'm a super-conservative, too, but I just think we should check ourselves) There is a trend in heavily conservative groups to abhor things that are not necessarily unbiblical but which might be indicative of sin. The far-conservative attitude is in many cases mind-closing. My mind has been opened in my being here to some new concepts which I think even people at LeTU could benefit from. For example: gayness. it's not a sin to be gay, and people who are actually attracted to men are sometimes incurable, and the reasons for their homosexuality are irrelevant (nature or nurture). What's a sin is acting in lust, which is also a sin for heteros. The only difference is that gay people, if they don't work it out of themselves, might just have to stay virgins their whole lives to keep from sin. However, not that it's even all that bad. I'm a firm believer that one sin is not greater than another, because they are all equally forgiven, and when you have broken one commandment you have broken all of them. Murderers, thieves, prostitutes; everyone spends the exact same amount of time thinking, and although some people have naturally flawed logical skills, it is only natural that these people realize that what they are doing is wrong and don't need us telling them. In fact, if we go up to a prostitute and condemn her for it or, because of the reputation brought to us by misguided conservatives, even witness to her, she will probably wall up and dislike us entirely for it. What should we do then? Be kind to everyone. Embrace every person, and allow their sins to come with them, because it is a struggle for each of us to stop sinning, and if they are truly Christian they will, with God's help, improve their lives and SLOWLY sin less and less as time passes.
...so... moral of the story: don't be angry with people for sinning, don't be derogatory or belittling to people who sin in ways which society has deemed worse than yours. Love everyone.

Ok, well there goes 30 minutes.^^ This was a good idea^^

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