matching hoodies

the worship team from the jama conference got together for dinner. i was pretty excited to distribute the embroidered-hoodies that we got made. it says, "Jama 2008 New Awakening Band".

gideon pics

i told suhee that in a few month gideon won't be cute anymore. soon he won't be considered a baby, but just a little boy.

mexican mosquito bites

several weeks ago i was on a mission trip in mexico. during that trip the mosquitos feasted on my legs. i counted over 30 bites on my left leg alone. unlike american mosquito bites, they remained small. but many of them bled & formed scabs. i never experienced that before, strange mosquitos.

on the sunday morning i got back from the trip, one of our church elders asked me about the trip. he said that it didn't look like i suffered. so i pulled up my pants & showed him my fresh bites. he gave me a look of approval & said something like, "Oh, you did a great job Pastor Chu!"

last night i was fulfilling my fatherly duties by taking gideon to his gymboree session. i noticed that some of the parents kept staring at my legs. then i realized that my numerous mosquito bites turned into dark purple scab marks. those poor parents were probably worried that i would spread some kind of strange skin disease to their little children. social stigma...

lindsay lohan & paparazzi

yesterday my mom watched gideon so that suhee & i could have some alone time together. i guess you can call it a date. so we spent the day in the city. we got to see lindsay lohan & her girlfriend in soho. they closed down the chanel store so that lindsay lohan could have a private shopping session. so a bunch of spectators & paparazzi gathered to watch lindsay go shopping.

i was more interested in watching the paparazzi. i noticed that they all knew each other; they all drove pretty nice cars; they all wore lowepro backpacks; & they all used flash brackets. i saw one of them get into his car & upload pictures onto his labtop. he was editing & sending the pictures on the spot.

suhee's family visit

suhee's whole immediate family visited w/us last week. we had a chance to go up to newport, rhode island.

el toro (a restaurant in mexico)

at the end of our mission trip we spent a night in progreso, a city on the beach. our missions pastor (andres yi) told me that i must eat at el toro in progreso. he said that the fish there was the best meal of his life. all the touristy restaurants were on the beach & were very clean & "touristy". but el toro was in a back-alley road and had that "local vibe". no english menus & no english-speaking waiters. their specialty was fresh grouper ($10 per kilogram). you get to pick your fish out of a bucket & they fry it up for you. they converted some old steel garbage cans to be their makeshift frying machines. i did wonder how often they changed the frying-oil, but i tried not to think about it. the fish was so tasty & so good.

mission trip: yucatan peninsula, mexico

last sunday we returned from our mission trip. our church supports a missionary (Pastor Won) in the Yucatan peninsula in mexico. he has a strong relationship & network w/the local churches. our main focus was to lead an english camp for the jovenes (15-18 year olds) from the local churches. 19 jovenes stayed w/us at the mission center. we basically ran the camp like a retreat. every single one of the jovenes was so precious and awesome. many of them had strong leadership gifts. among them were future pastors, missionaries & church leaders.

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