Ronda Everson:
CLASS OF 1973
Choctaw High SchoolClass of 1973
Choctaw, OK
Oklahoma Christian UniversityClass of 1978
Oklahoma city, OK
American SchoolClass of 1973
Rabat,
Victor Valley High SchoolClass of 1973
Victorville, CA
Ronda's Story
Life
Well, I am now in Korea. I have lived in seven countries besides the U. S. now. I speak four languages, and I'm working on my 5th. I am a missionary English teacher. I was married, but my husband is gone. I have four kids. The oldest in in law school in Ohio. The second is married to a Japanese guy and going to college in California. The third is seventeen years old, and living with me. The last one is twelve years old, and living with me. I used to teach at a university, but I gave that up, and now I am teaching at an elemetary school and completely enjoying it.
Okay, they want an update on my bio. Now, I'm carrying on conversations in Korean too. And, I will be visiting the states in July and August traveling all over the place visiting with friends and family.
Here is an update on my bio. I went to the states for two months. I spent part of the time in Granburty, Texas, and part of it in L. A., California. The time in Texas was sad because my father passed away. And, I had four job offers in L. A., at language schools, and one university, as well as visited with an old friend, but I decided that L. A. wasn't for me, and I came back to Korea. The Korean government has promoted me and they sent me to another place. I am now teaching at Plalbong Middle School, Palbong Elementary School, and I am teaching teachers at the State Education Office in Seosan City. If you look at a map of S. Korea, Seosan City is about two hours south of Seoul. We aren't far from the beach, and we have been to the beach. My son, Samuel, is enrolled in Kumdo lessons, the ancient Korean art of sword fighting. Winter, my daughter, is thinking that she wants to take the lessons too, and I will be enrolling her soon. They will also both be taking piano lessons. We are making new friends and visiting with the ones we made last year. Well, I guess that is the lastest.
I'm being asked to update my bio. Well, I am still in Seosan City, S. Korea. I am still teaching at Palbong Middle School, Palbong Elementary School, and I am still teaching teachers at the Seosan Education Center. The teachers are so diligent in their studies that I can see a vast improvement in their English in just a short time. In just a short time, those who couldn't make proper sentences when they speak in English are making proper sentences, and the ones who couldn't conjugate English verbs have learn to conjugate verbs. Their vocabularies and English conversational abilities have really grown, and I have become friends with all of them, and better friends with others. I am invited to one of their houses on Friday for dinner. The class is almost finished, and I am sorry because I have truly enjoyed it. They plan on having a party in two weeks to end the class. I hope they keep in touch. Some of them have followed me to church, and I go to an exercise class with one of the ladies now, so I am sure I'll keep in touch with those.
As for Palbong Middle School, I am not very happy there. The student population is mostly made up of kids who have never been taught anything. It has been a real struggle to teach them because they are already teenagers, and they don't know how to sit d...Expand for more
own in class and be quiet. A group of big boys were recently kicked out. I'm not sure why they were kicked out, but I found them cutting thier arms with razor blades, trying to light fires to papers, and sticking themselves with pins in my class. I am relieved the school kicked them out, but there are still others who don't know how to act left,their girlfriends. They love to jump out of thier seats and scream. One physically came after me one day because I caught her reading a Korean cartoon book and listening to an ipod instead of studying English, and I threw her out of the classroom and locked the door. Needless to say, I want to change schools.-I wrote a lot more, but after encouraging me to write, the computer told me I was out of space.
I saw a question that asked where I was between 1978 and 1980. I got married in 1978, and first I moved to Lower Salem, Ohio outside of Marietta, where my husband ( who is now my ex-husband)was a preacher at the Lower Paw Paw church of Christ. After a couple of years there, we went as missionaries to Nigeria. We were supposed to go for two years, but there was a coup, and we ended up coming back to the states. We started in Ohio at his parents house, and then went to Texas. He worked at Comanchee Peak Power plant with my father in Granbury, Texas. I went to Tax School with H. & R. Block, and took care of the kids. Then I went to graduate school at Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas. About the time I graduated, my husband began preaching in Huckabay, outside of Stephenville and I began teaching English at Huckababy Junior high and high schools. It was an extremely small school.
We were there a couple of years, and then we moved to Abilene, started a business, bought a house, and had another baby which my husband went back for his master's degree at Abilene Christian University. I taught international students from ACU and I also worked with international students in the public school system--both were on a part-time basis because I was actually a full time mom. I had also taught Mexicans when I was in Granbury.
We went from Abilene to Romania. In Romania, we were missionaries for eight years---and I taught at the university. I really don't want to tell anyone what all happened in Romania. I learned to love Romania, but it was a nightmare---and my now ex-husband was a nightmare. I speak Romanian just like I speak English, and I almost became a Romanian. Romania is too long and too sad of a story to tell anyone.---so now you know where I was during the missing times.
At the present, I am very happy. I am just ending my first semester at Korea Christian University. My boss is happy with me and gives me extra responsibility, the students chase me because they want my time so much, and my kids are wonderful! I have been teaching an adult Bible class in Seosan once a month, and I teach a children's Bible class in Seoul. We live in a nice, new three bedroom apartment on a hill behind the university. I walk the hill everyday, and my students can't believe it, but I believe in exercise. This is final's week, and I think I am wasting too much time on the computer---so I'm going back to work!
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