We are back on the blog.
Let me see if I can bring you up to speed.
First, Daniel’s birthday was the 14th and in celebration many of the teachers went to On the Border for a Saturday dinner. Not much of a cultural shock but I thought I would take a few minutes to publicly thank so people for the gifts. Thank you Mylinda and Lisa for the Korean/English Bible and the other cool little things. Thank you to Linda, Merilee and Holly for the ₩! Thank you Jason for the Gift Certs. for Outback. Thank you Joanna for the coffee, tea and mug. Thank you Jessica for the variety of teas.
I also want to thank all my students that worked so hard to surprise me on my birthday as well. Thank you to the students that posted their notes and well wishes on my door. Thanks also to Kevin for his gift of aftershave. Also, thank you to my wonderful wife for all that she did on my birthday to make it special.
Second, Charity also celebrated 23 years on this earth one week later on the 21st. We had the opportunity to go to TGIFridays, really good to have American food once again, and enjoyed yet another wonderful birthday of fellowship with our new friends here.
For Charity’s birthday, I suggested a day at the spa. Mylinda, Charity and two of the other teachers went to Spavis, a really nice water park and spa resort thing. The ladies all said they had a wonderful time relaxing at the spa.
Third, we had graduation here at school. It was a bit of an odd feeling. I really didn’t know many of the graduates well, so on one hand I wasn’t too sad. However, I saw amongst the attendees and the graduates emotions and sentiment that reminded me of my graduation day and I was a bit affected by it.
I should keep with the spirit of this blog by telling you some of the more interesting happenings that night. As honor to the molders of the children’s minds, the parents took the teachers and administrators of the school to a really nice buffet restaurant. Now, buffets, I am pretty sure, were started and have reached their epic proportions through good old American adoration. American’s love buffets. However, there are very few buffets here in Korea (or at least in Seoul).
The food there was good! They had American classics such as prime rib, salad, french fries and fruit bar, but they also had a sushi bar, a desert menu that included do it yourself cotton candy and dduk and a couple varieties of kimchi.
Aside from the food, I noticed that none of the fathers were at the meal. I am not sure why. It may be culturally based but it might have been as simple as they were not off work yet.
Ok, there is more I can say, but I think I will save it for the next post.
What you can look forward to in coming posts:
- Updates on Mia.
- More on summer school
- Korean classes, fun or failure?
- Summer day trips…
More to Come…
