Bringing back the blog

Support the Masan Children's Home!

Well, it's been a long time since I've had anything to say. But I guess it's time to do this again. So much has changed in my life since December of 2008; I'm not even going to go into detail, because if you're on this blog, you already know all about it. In a nutshell, since then I have extended my Korean teaching contract twice; visited America on a whirlwind Christmas tour; gone skiing; bought a bicycle (well, actually three of them) and started a foreigner biker gang; helped start an English Sunday school program; and come down with leukemia. It's been interesting over here.

And I let this go by the wayside because whenever there's something worth writing about, I'm too busy to write it; and whenever I have time to write, there's nothing to say. I'll do my best to change that now, because a blog can be a part of ministry, and maybe what's going on in my head can help somebody down the line.

More importantly!
...and more immediately: I'm bringing back the blog because I've finished the Couch to 5K program and it's time to do the 5K part of it. I'm officially registered for the "Park Love Marathon" ("Marathon" is the word Koreans use for every kind of running race) in Daegu on July 3. Why is this worthy of a blog entry, you ask? Because I want your money.

This race is NOT a charity race. (Those are hard to come by over here.) But for me, it is. I am not the most self-motivated of individuals, so just running for the sake of running does not do it for me. However, if I'm training for this race -- and running it -- for something bigger than me, then it's fun and interesting. So I'm running for the Masan Aeyukwon, the orphanage I volunteer at on Saturdays. I dunno how much I can squeeze out of my recession-ridden friends and family back home, but I'm going to do my very best.

So there it is, over there on the right. The Paypal link. Sponsor me, would you? I'm not asking for any great chunk of change here. I'm hoping out of my 400 plus FB friends, I can get 50 people to give me 15 bucks or so and buy the orphanage a computer. Or send me a dollar, or 44 cents, or whatever you've got. That would sure make these sweaty mornings of training worthwhile!

You guys who have known me for a while know that the idea of me running five kilometers is pretty hilarious on its own. So here's your chance to celebrate vicariously with me. Thanks for any help you can give. I'm sorry I'm not a 501(c)3 or anything, so I won't send you a tax deduction receipt. But I will send you outstanding photos when it's all said and done. And you can have the satisfaction of knowing you made me run. Not just anybody can say that.