아들놈 라이드 해주고 왔습니다.[과테말라 봉사여행]

 

이번에는 과테말라 봉사여행입니다.

과테말라에서 천사의 집을 운영하시는 홍승의 신부님을 찾아서 새벽 비행기로 출발했습니다.

5일 출발해서 25일 다시 돌아오는 일정입니다. 대략 3주가 되겠지요.

 

지난번 자전거 여행을 중간에 포기한 여파가 꽤 컷던것 같드라구요.

고등학교 마지막 여름방학을 이렇게 보낼수는 없다면서 보람된 일을 찾는것을 보면서

마침 생각이 나서 연락... 연결된 스케쥴입니다.

 

과테말라가 어떤나라인가요.

그저... 좋은 일 하시는 신부님 계시는곳으로

봉사현장 체험해보겠다는 아들놈

두말않고 보내주는 저는.... 보통내기의 자식사랑입니다.

 

시도하지 않으면 얻을수 없단다.

가치있는 일이라고 생각이 되는 일이 있다면 시도해 보거라.

길가에서 만나는 사람도 셋이 모이면 그중에 스승을 찾을수 있다 했거늘

고생스럽더라고 이것저것 경험해 보는중에 성장이 있지 않겠느냐며...

보냈습니다.

 

도착한날 당일 간단한 도착전화가 왔었고..

오늘 누나에게 메일을 보냈드랍니다.

그대로 옮깁니다.

 

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sis,
im in guatemala
it's hard.
today it sucked and it was so hard
i had to work with kids who were like 4 years old
no manner, screaming, violence, crying, etc
realized how much i sucked at spanish at the moment.
hopefully i'll learn
theres only one girl who works here besides me
facility's big and there are lots of kids and guatemalan workers(nannies, teachers, construction workers) but none im really close with
today i just started talking to the korean girl, kinda became friends
she's 28, from chicago, graduate student, architect, emigrated when she was 14. speak in english
but anyway
it's really realy lonely.
REALLY
priest isnt all that friendly as i expected, pretty strict and all, but whatever.
but he told me to kinda hang out with the older kids starting tomorrow, so hopefully it'll get better
i mean duke sucked the first week,
well, the internet connection isnt good, only one usb chord, which is owned by the priest. but i think i can use it like once every 2, 3 days. phone=probably once a week
i already called parents yesterday, so tell them how horrible my first day was, and how lonely i am, and how tired i am, but i believe things will get better
i mean personally i hate myself for deciding to stay here for 3 weeks right befoere senior year, but it's already happened and theres no excuse to go back home earlier.
as of today(1st day), i haven't learned or felt anything significant that gave me the EUREKA feeling.
but anyway, hope it'll get better
and i'll do some research on taking howard community college courses over the weekend hopefully and i'll call you sometime early next week. right now, i'm kind of busy and i can't right well or long.
but i will write in a better and more thorough fashion in a few days.
tell mom and dad what i said and i will talk to them sometime next week.
tell them it's pretty safe here because i don't get to go outside of the facility at all and so it's like a safe jail... lol
and the foods are eh okay. but i'm doing better than the priest in terms of being able to eat any food they give us, tell dad about this , he'll be proud.
anyway, talk to you soon