Great wisdom from the desk of Professor Deron Walker, PhD...

I thought this was pretty cute. This masterpiece was in one of the letters from the kids. (Saturday elementary kids-NOT Handong University students!! ha!ha!) This is supposed to be me "Andy-Sun-Sang-Nim" teaching them the ABCs of course.

One of the several good-bye letters from the "Saturday elementary kids". This says, "Dear Andy teacher..." How sweet!

As the semester comes to an end, so does the voluntary elementary school program which took place on Saturdays. The teacher in the top picture is Denver who is leaving this semester. God bless, Denbo! We'll miss you!

"All who hate me love death". (Proverbs 8:36)

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A group of Handong students playing hymns with classical music on a Friday evening to raise money for missions I believe. Great music! God bless them! (The student in the blue shirt is Su-Jin, Peter Fama's EF student (English Foundation) and my computer lab student.)

postcard reads "FAITH-Handong Global University is God's University-Handong Global University will be the world changing global Christian University, educating twenty-first century leaders for Korea and the world who embody excellence in both academics and Christian moral character, in particular, honesty and service."

Thanks, Kyung-Jung! God bless you and all the Handong students that are studying at Calvin College this summer!!!

Tea for me?! Thanks, Kyung Jung! You are TOO kind!

English Grammar & Composition Students Share Their Lives Through Writing

Marriage
Youth minister of my formal church is getting married today. It's hard to believe someone you know get marry. I just suddenly realized I'm eighteen already. I'm getting older and older. People around start to get marry. This is hard to stand. I don't really want to marry. Now guys start to become campus couples in the school, and that makes me a lot more lonely. It's hard to imagine when I become thirty, and everyone is married except me. In the Bible, Adam married Eve. Adam had no choice but marrying her. Maybe that will be my case. I will be married to someone I have to. Maybe there's none. Either way, it's fine. Anyway, I think there's no Eve in our school for me.

Good-bye
I talked about "come and see" before. It's student organization that promotes school. Come and see confronted several problems these days. Many members have "personal problems" that they cannot work with us anymore. I don't know deep background of why they stopped doing it, but i think the main reason is that there are a lot of works to do, and it's pretty tiresome. They just simple abandoned their responsibility, which make me sad and mad. Time has past so far, and now they just quit because they are tired. Now, rest of us have more works to do. Also, it's too late to find any substitudes. I wonder why God gave us these problems. I think He wants us to pray more and trust Him only. Those who can't be with us, then only thing I could say is "good-bye". I wish the choice they made is best for them. I hope I could handle till the end, and praise God for helping me to go through all these.

Trip to Daegu
I had to go to Dae Gu today, because of come and see. What we had to do in Dae Gu is research for churches and places that we can do performance during the summer. So we left the school around two in a small car. We had six people in that car, so four people had to sit in the back. We squeazed to Dae Gu around four. We met representative of our school's parents organization in Dae Gu. With her help, we split into three groups of two and went to research for different churches. Result of the research was satisfactory. We received permission from few churches and we are going to perform two churches among them. After all the research, we became tired. So we met in downtown of Dae Gu around nine. One thing about Dae Gu is girls are pretty. I heard about that before, and I found out that rumor was true. Girls in Dae Gu is far better than PoHang or Handong. They are even better than girls in Seoul. Anyways, we had dinner in downtown, and we left for Guang Ju about eleven.

Mid term!
What a tough week I am having! I really do not like the fact that to get a good grade I should go through two tests a semester very well. As time passes by, the pressure of the midterm presses me harder and harder. Friends of mine tell me that they take tests to feel the freedom that follows after, but I do not agree them. The thing that my friends call freedom is nothing more than a short rest for me. After that short rest I start to get stressed again little by little. We, specially students, sometimes forget what we are living for. Indeed, we are not living to get a good grade through the harsh tests. We definitely need to remind ourselves what we are living for and why are we studying in this campus.

Different types of teachers
What happened in school lives or what we did in schools remain as one of the greatest and unforgettable memories. Among the memories, I assume that there is at least one teacher that we met in a school. Teachers affect our lives very much and as far as I know, there are three types of teachers. Teachers who try to understand students personally and who become friend of students is the first type and the second is those who focus on education and studies. The last type of teachers is teachers who rather focus on their own interests such as career or money. Regardless to the types of teachers, we meet them randomly and get influenced by them.

Different kinds of people
I have seen many kinds of people through my short life. For my parents were missionariesI could have more chances to go abroad and to meet various kinds of people. Meeting and getting to know so many different people, I saw not only their physical differences but also mental differences. Some people say that this is difference between cultures. I do not argue with them, but I think there is something more than that. At the moment, I'm studying in Handong Global Univeristy. As the name of our university reads, it is supposed to be global and actually there are many foreigneres in our school. May be this is a stupid thing to try to understand other people when I don't even understand myself. I do not understand clearly why God made people so differently at the moment. However, I do believe that there is a very special and meaningful purpose of God in making people differently from each other.

The worst presentation
I had a presentation this morning for my MIS(Management Information System) class and for this I spent a lot of time since I started working on it. I was pretty confident for my work and joyfully went to the classroom to make a presentation. There were nine more people who were going to do the same thing like me but I did not even care about them. I was the last presenter and was sitting in my seat waiting for my turn. In a while, I got bored and started to loose concentration. After few more minutes, it was a girl’s turn to give presentation and when I glimpsed at her hand-out I was so shocked and annoyed because it was about the exactly same topic. I started to pay attention to the lady and I found out that her work was much better than mine. I was not confident anymore and finally it was my turn. I was so nervous and unconfident that I do not even remember what I was talking about. Fortunately, I finished my presentation with no mistakes, as far as I checked. However, even after I came back to my room, I did not feel good. May be something is wrong with me but still it was not a pleasing experience.

Making barn fire~!
Several days ago, I found out great and surprising news in Handong. I was talking with one of my friend who is from the U.S and he said that we could go to Cheon-Ma-Ji(lake in Handong Campus) and make barn fire. I never thought about making barn fire in our campus and it made me so excited. In the evening, I went to an area that my friend used to visit often and immediately we started to make fire. The Sun started to fall very quickly and when it disappeared we were already having fun around the barn fire we made ourselves. Talking to my friend before the barn fire was such a nice experience. Now, I believe that there must be many more things that I can enjoy but I have not found yet in this campus and I am looking for them now.

Cultural Difference
While walking through Handong Global University, one may realize that there are several various groups of ethnicity among the students. Starting with Koreans, Chinese, African Americans, Caucasians, and so on, walk around campus speaking variety of languages. This unique environment is very rare in any country. Though we try our best to unite with each other as much as possible, a barrier between different ethic groups always have and still exist. The cultural difference in Handong may be effective in creating a unique environment for students to study in, but at the same time it may leave a few minorities in isolation. We must ask our selves, do the foreigners in Handong truly feel welcome here.

Cafeteria
Four years of college should be a pleasant and enjoyable experience. One significant factor of that are delightful meals. Given the fact that our campus is miles away from the rest of the world, our only way of receiving food is either on campus or order the one and only chicken that people of Handong has eaten for as long as one could remember. Sure there is a decent selection of food in the Hyoam Café next to the chapel. However, their demanding price tags are much too high for a mere college student that lives off the allowance that we receive from our parents. So we turn to the school cafeteria for our daily bread. If anyone has eaten their at least once, they will have a set mind on what I am trying to say. Even though what we get for what we pay is appropriate, taking into an account that we must eat “that” for four years is a dreadful thought.

Smoke Free Campus
The school’s attempt to make a smoke free campus is a very fragile and dangerous attempt. Statistically, excluding the women, 75% of college students are exposed to smoking. Which means, even on Handong University, one out of every five males on campus are not smoke-free. Imagine a campus that is not allowed to smoke. One out of every five males on campus must go down the entrance of our campus which is more than a pleasant walk in the morning, have a cigarette and walk back up the hill. Picture the vibe of the school if that was to actually happen. The student body and the school council must take certain facts and the actual situation of our school more seriously before they make vague statements.

called to be the righteous
Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers. But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers. Not so the wicked! They are like chaff that the wind blows away. Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous. For the LORD watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish. (Psalm 1)I thank God for that He call me to be the righteous not the wicked.If God did not send Jesus Christ for me, what would i be like? I must be the wicked.But by God's grace I become a righteousness. Therefore I am so thankful for that.Though i am not perpect human, for God is perpect who is with me, I can be confident.I pray that God gives me a lot of grace now.

Strange Weather
This year the weather is so strange. It is unusual. I don't know why but I guess this is because of the Tsunami last year. I feel this is getting close to the end of the age. But I trust in God and believe in God's power. I pray I could depend on God. Through His guidance and mercy, I will study my best. I pray God will be glorified through everhthing of me.

almost end of semester
only couple weeks has left before finishing this semester..time has pass so quickly.. my 3rd semester at Handong..new professors and new classmates and new roommates..everything was new to me when i just started the semester..however, everything is familiar to me because i have got used to them..i am running to the end of the semester.. finals are coming as well..i will spend the rest of this semester to be worthy and valuable..i will not regret..in Christ i become bold and strong..

Finals are coming
I have done one of my finals today, bowling class. It was one 1 credit hour class but it took a lot of my time and i had to spend some money as well. When i go to the bowling place to practice, i had to pay 1500 won for each game. Not only that, i had to take a bus to get there. Anyway, it is over now. The final game was good. i did 2 games and the best one would be regarded for my grade. over 130 points is A and i scored 161 points. Woo!! Good job! Actually, the first game was so bad. i scored much below than my average. Then, i began to pray that God would help me and let me constrate on the game so that i could glorify God during the game. Yes! God did!

Summer plans
It's summer. As soon as i finish my finals, i will begin to put my summer plans into actions. First, I will read a lot of good books concerning Bible, history, philosophy, International Politicsand so on. Then, for I love swimming, I will enjoy swimming for maybe 2 times a week. Then, I will go to Nagoya in Japan because I have a conference there. It will go for about 2 weeks. How exciting it is!! I can't wait anymore. Now, it has left only 2 weeks to complete everything for this semester. Also, this entry is the last one for Blogger homework.

Be
Learn from you mistake,
Be high in skills
Be low in your attitude.

Don't be proud,
Don't be shy,
Be zealous-!

Be on the top,
but always humble.
Be the best at last.

Till When
when will I know you?
when will I know you all?
Why am I being deceived?
should I keep pretending just like you?

Everything's been right there,
underneath the cover you made me believe,
you didn't want me to worry, maybe that's why,
you didn't think it's necessary for me to know.... but I feel like I am fooled.

We got closer,
yes, we did.
But I don't know you, because you didn't let me know.
I feel like I'd been lied to, although it's just unsaid and unspoken.

It's not betrayal,
But I feel like I'm betrayed.
Forgive me,
I don't want to be unknowing anymore.

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