The Real Beautiful Thing - Column 1.

I went to trip during spring break with many international students by bus. While we moved to our destination I saw many beautiful things. My home country, Korea is very small country and I’m sure that it is smaller than Nebraska, so I haven’t seen endless horizon. This is my first time that saw wide open field, endless horizon, grazed horse, wild deer and many nature things. The most impressed nature thing is the Milky Way. I born in big city so I haven’t seen much stars in the sky before came to Kearney, but it is the first time saw the Milky Way on my own eyes! It was amazing, so I thought that there is no more beautiful thing in this trip.

Actually this trip is planned by CSF, Christian Student Fellowship, I and many international students have to follow their plan. According to the plan, we had to visit Indian Reservation. Frankly speaking, I didn’t know that Indian Reservation exist in South Dakota, so I didn’t have any information about Indian, I expected that I can see their traditional thing like as picture of books. When we arrived their reservation, of course reservation is just same to outside of there, I was little bit disappointed. We entered school gym and wait for Indian people.

As time goes by, Indian people, from kids to elder, came to gym and we started taking pictures for a while. Indian people’s appearance were very different from my expectation, everybody was really sweet and kind. We were just exciting to meet unfamiliar culture and people. After taking photo, we shared our own cultures each other such as learning how to greet each other, traditional dance, say greeting language and martial arts. (I didn’t know they have their own language!) At last, all people stood circle with hold hands each other and followed Indian traditional dance. It was really interesting time share with them. Nearly three hours spend with them and we had to say good bye.

The day after that day, we had a time that shared our impressing from this trip. One of my Korean friends Hana said that when she got out from gym at the Indian Reservation, her eyes met the girl who named Jasmine so she said good bye to her and then Jasmine approached and hugged her. At that time she thought she is better than her! The main goal of this trip was showing our love but she felt she got a love from Jasmine when she hugged. Compare to this little girl, she is much wealthy and educated but she doesn’t know how to share her love and haven’t thought about that.After her said the atmosphere was hushed, and suddenly a phrase popped up my head that I read from Indian Reservation gym wall. I used to complain about my shoes, until I met a man with no feet. I heard they are really poor and in not good environment but they, at least the people I met, have really generous mind that can love the other people. In this society, people ignore poor people and many people do bad things for their wealth. Some people suicide because of the money, some people kill their family for money. This is our current portrait. People lost their mind because of money. However, through this trip I felt love is alive! Even though they don’t have lots of money they are afford to share their heart! Of course nature thing is really amazing and awesome but real beautiful thing is sharin