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| A Beautiful fall day on this Chuseok! |
I'm thankful for my preschool department pastor.
My pastor and I met up for lunch for fellowship, and I really enjoyed my time with her. I got to share some of my stories from Mexico, and even the things I felt and experienced after coming back and adjusting to "reality." We also got to share a little bit about the ministry as well, for its growth and improvement.
I'm thankful for my grandparents.
I got to talk to both of my grandparents on the phone! It's "Chu-Seok" in Korea, which is similar to Thanksgiving in North America. I thought about calling them before they do, but I was a little late for that. I got to talk to both my mom's side and dad's side grandparents. As I was talking to them, I was able to remember some of the things I used to do with my family when I was young. I also realized that we don't do a lot of those things from my childhood anymore. For instance, making "Song-pyun" - traditional bite-size rice cake filled with beans or honey and sesame. It's a tradition to make Songpyun on Chuseok. Usually, all the women of the family would gather around on the floor and make them. You prepare the dough first, and then prepare the fillings - I think we had a choice of beans or honey and sesame. The process of making Songpyun is similar to making dumplings. You kind of roll out a little bit of the dough on your hand, and put a spoonful of the filling of your choice. Then, you bring the edges together and close it so that the filling doesn't spill out. You need to gently squeeze it to get the shape. And here comes my favourite part - I was in charge of picking up the pine needles to steam with the Songpyun. The pine needles work as a kind of herb to add the fresh pine or menthol scent when they are steamed together. Anyways, that was one of my favourite memories of Chuseok. We not only make Songpyun anymore (even my grandparents in Korea don't make them anymore, because it takes a lot of time), nor do we even recall the memories. I realized that I had completely forgot about the fact that we had this tradition until my grandma brought up Songpyun. It was a sad moment of truth.
I'm thankful for my friend in New York.
I had a long skype date with one of my best friends from highschool. We both had a great time updating each other with our lives (Miss you Jenja! I'll keep you in my prayers). I realized that it's been almost two years since I logged on to skype. There was a time when I was on skype every single day... chatting and video chatting with friends from all over the world. Good times...! Those were the days when I didn't have a smart phone. Well, I had my blackberry and I thought that was a smart phone. Now that I'm a galaxy user, I know the blackberry wasn't a smart phone. I only was able to communicate via email and "BBM." Although I had facebook and twitter, I definitely didn't use them as much as I am now with my galaxy.
Oh, last but not least, I got a message from a friend that I haven't spoken to for years! It was strange and so random but it was nice to hear from her.
Anyways, I'm thankful for today. As you can see, so many good things happened that I couldn't really pick one thing to be thankful for. Therefore, I decided to be thankful for Chuseok and all the wonderful people God has blessed me with. Chuseok is equivalent to Thanksgiving here... so it makes sense to give thanks to God the provider for everything He's granted me with. Right?
Happy Chuseok everyone!
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