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You know what time it is? Come on singing it with me. It’s story time a, I said it’s story time. All right, so today for story. Time Now, I mentioned to you all again that I enjoy drawing and painting. I’ll try to show some of my artwork here. This is some of my latest artwork. Hold on one second.
Let’s see if you all can see it right here. Um, where I put my artwork online. So I like to paint, I like to draw, and I just like to express myself, um, creatively. But the thing is, I don’t have a lot of friends that are interested in art. They appreciate art. Like they’ll see a picture and say, wow, TIFF, we really like that picture.
But it usually stops there. They’re not as interested as I am in art. I love going to art museums. I can spend a full day at an art museum staring at paintings, staring at drawings, staring at sculptures, trying to understand what the artist. Was trying to convey the message, so I never really had another friend that appreciated that level of, uh, art appreciation.
That was until I went to Korea. One of my closest friends, I mean, closest friends, like she married my student, like we’re very, very close. When we were in Korea, I’ve talked about her before. Angel, if you’re watching, Hey. Um, her name is Angel. She’s Korean. Um, but we were teachers together at the English Institute I worked at in Korea, Sam Mu O’Hagan, uh, Sam Mu Institute that was in Korean.
Um, and we were friends, but we hadn’t gotten close just yet. That was until we realized we both loved art. So we used to go to cafes every Sunday, and I told you all about how we used to spend hours sometimes in silence, just drawing and painting, and we loved it. Well, one year I was in Korea. It was around Christmas time.
It actually was Christmas, and I wasn’t able to come home. I had to stay in Korea. I wasn’t with my family. And she and I spoke and we said, Hey, well why don’t we spend Christmas together? This was before she got married. Um, they hadn’t even started dating yet. So we said, okay, well let’s go on a trip. So we went on a trip to, uh, kind of a, um, like a little hotel area.
It was kind of, they, it was kind of, um, not a hotel, it was like an apartment, and they had it right in front of the beach. So it was really nice and we said, Hey, let’s just go and draw and paint the whole time. So that’s exactly what we did. We cooked, we, um, talked laughed a lot. And then during the day we just drew and paint all painted all day.
But on Christmas day we came back to our house, um, my apartment, and she went to her. We were about to go to her apartment to drop her off, and she said, TIFF, why don’t we hang out actually for Christmas day? Because we had hung out prior, like the days before Christmas. And I said, okay. I said, well, what do you wanna do?
Because she cooks well, and I like to cook as well. I can cook well too. So I said, okay, are we gonna cook all day or what are we gonna do? She said, how do you feel about painting all day? We had just came from a trip, we painted all day and I said, I love the idea. And we literally painted all day. Now we ate delicious food in the evening, but we painted all day.
And I can remember as we were sitting in the floor in my living room, she was painting and I was painting and we were listening to, we listened to sermons, we listened to music, Christmas. And I just said, man, it’s amazing to have a friend that loves art just as much as I do now that I’m back in America, she’s in Korea again.
Uh, husband, baby. He’s so cute. But we both still talk about that, like, man, we miss being around each other to go on these trips where we just paint all day. So one day, again, after uh, things are a little bit more safe, a little safer, I’ll be able to travel to Korea and visit and we’ll do another. Painting trip.
Alright guys, maybe you have experienced the same thing. You have a friend that has the same interest as you, and you have a wonderful time together. Let us know about it in the comment section. Alright guys, I hope you enjoy today’s story time and learn a little bit more about me. I’ll see you next time.