A small progress...

Past couple of days were uneventful... today however wasn't... I went to meet with a pastor that my parents and I knew from the church they go to in Huntington since he goes as a guest speaker sometimes.. reason being was because he was who I needed to come in contact with for the ESL program... But before we discussed that, he gave me a tour of the seminary he taught at (Taiwan Baptist Theological Seminary).. Really bad day to forget my camera since there's a huge part of Christian history there and my mind started churning as we went through the archives (which I'll post my thoughts tomorrow... like about 10 hrs from now lol..) But afterward we discussed about what God was doing in my life and talked about things that a pastor would ask a student that's about to go into seminary... As for the ESL job.. there's good news and bad news... bad news is that right now is not a great time to discuss it since Christmas was just over and Chinese New Year's about to come up which is basically a second Christmas here... so, in short, it's like that time slot between Thanksgiving and Christmas for the U.S. Not a lot of people want to start up anything around that time since it's stressful and people go around visiting relatives and such.. (not that I know anything about it since I'm usually studying finals and when I finally take note of Christmas, there's usually 3 days left).. good news is that people seem to assume I have something to do during the weekdays, which I don't, but they'll ask around since they know I have so much free time.. This sort of contradicts what I said about not going to Taiwan to be at a church at first... but he also said that when kids come home from school, usually there's nothing to do, so they come to the seminary to hang out with some of the kids there... so the students there wouldn't exactly be all Christians, but a mix.... plus I could always go around the neighboring houses to rally up a few kids if need be... c'mon.. English for free at just a small walk away? Learning English in Taiwan is compared to learning Spanish in like California... while it's not required... it'd be useful.. and the stereotype is true... they do hold education above pretty much everything else here...
I'm also supposed to contact someone from my family's church for their ESL program... something like sit in, sort of see what it's like... One of the requirements was to read Bible stories in English.. (yeah like that's hard to do..)
Yep, while it all seems like good news in the end, I still need prayers that this all falls through... while everyone in this country is on a Chinese New Year high while they get ready for it, I'm not... I'm a bit weary of what's going to happen afterwards... I'm surprise my relatives aren't sick of me yet and kicked me out...lol... but I degress.... biggest prayer here is that this ESL thing goes through...
Oh, and don't forget to read the next post on my take on some Christian history that involves Taiwan.. and China as well... if you don't learn anything from it.. I'll be surprised :)

Till Next Time!