Well everyone, I am headed home on Friday. The parents of my students come tomorrow for an Ending Celebration, and then the kiddos leave. I had planned to stay until August 18, but due to family circumstances we all decided I should return home earlier. Yesterday my sister was in a three vehicle crash on her way to training camp for Cross Country down at CBU. Here's a link that explains some of it http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/08/10/california.collision/index.html
She is now in the hospital in Riverside, had surgery today on her broken femur, and a fracture in her fibula or tibia (I just know it was her "lower leg". She has a metal rod from right below her hip to right above her knee, but didn't need any pins in her ankle which is aweosme. She will probably be in the hospital for two or three more days. My parents are both down there with her, along with a bunch of my friends, coworkers, and people from my church in Riverside who have all been visiting on and off. You guys can be praying for her and everyone else involved in the situation. Obviously it was a big enough deal to make the news on CNN.
Today my students all wrote letters to my sister. It was so amazing to see a different side of them, and it was definitely something that I needed to see. One class spent thirty minutes of their time, were all completely silent, and had their American dictionaries and Bibles open. They handed me pieces of paper filled with words of encouragement, love, humor, wisdom, and a little info about Korea. The next class spent almost an hour and they filled their letters with the same things, but also wrote me letters as well. They requested that I waited and read the letters to my sister, and corrected any grammar so they wouldn't feel embarrassed. Some kids even bought Korean snacks to give to her at the hospital since "she must miss real food"...although I don't know how comforting Korean food will be, I'm sure its the thought that counts :) One of my girls, named Kate had some positive words to make me feel better. She said "Teacher, I know you're sad you can't go to Lotte World (Korean theme park) but your sister really needs you right now. And when she's all better, you can take her to Disneyland which is better than Lotte World! But teacher?" and i said "what kate (while kinda crying)" "Can you bring your sister to Korea when she's well again? I want to meet the girl we all prayed for...the girl that you love so much that it made you cry really loud and made you not smile for a long time. You smile so much usually so this is serious isn't it?" I told her "yeah Kate this is kind of serious" and she goes "Well, at least she's not dead right? Because when you cried so much, I thought she was dead."...there's not really much else I wanted to say. Except that God is awesome, and He has a great plan that none of us can see yet. pray pray pray!
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