Adapting

September 21, 2014

          I'm sorry I haven't been posting the past three weeks! Not that anybody reads my blog... hehe.

Well! It's been a whole month since we got to live in this beautiful country Uruguay! We are now comfortable settled in and we got used to most things. However, we are still deciding on a church to attend. I'm also pretty worried about culture shock coming, because it should be coming any day now.

          We have attended several churches the past few weeks. We have visited the Korean, United States, and of course Uruguayan churches around the city. Please pray that we would be able to meet many people and build relationships with other Christians. We are also praying that I may find a youth group where I can make new friends and grow in my relationship with God.

          It's really hard to find friends. Looking back, I really don't know how to make new friends. All I know is that you have to introduce yourself to another person and just go from there. But other than that, I'm completely clueless. I usually had my older brother with me in foreign environments, but after he left for college in 2013, I was on my own. Finding friends is definitely hard, especially since I don't go to a school where I'm surrounded by people my age.

          Online-schooling has been tough to get used to, but I finally got used to everything. Although it can be lonely sometimes, it's nice to have me-time. But sometimes I think it's too much me-time. Not being around other students and people my age has definitely impacted me. Having been to all kinds of schools throughout my life (public, private, and now online-school), online-school is definitely the loneliest. Probably because I'm the only one in my "classroom" haha. It's definitely hard to be independent and self-motivated to get good grades. After being in my previous school (which was VERY competitive), it felt weird to not be driven by the competitiveness that I used to feel. I had to plan out my OWN schedules and learn how to study by myself for the tests and quizzes.

          Although it's tough being independent, I think this is a great opportunity that God has given me to learn a new type of studying. I can feel that He's helping me build up my independence for future events to come. However, staying at home all day has gotten me a lot lazier.