Our address

Warning: this is unbearably long!!!

Kyunggido, Yonginsi, Sujigu, Sungbokdong
Byuksan Chelseavill Apt. 510-505, South Korea

You can use skype to call us. Pick S. Korea from the country code. Our number is: (031) 011-82-31-264-3234

You can also visit: www.FAMILYMISSION.org

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Cleanliness

The Koreans make it a point to be clean. Joe could see his reflection on this bench

(Korean) Haircuts!!!

Yesterday after a long day at the hospital we went out to eat dinner with the Willings and Amy. We chose to be a bunch of cannibals and went to the Bone Soup restraunt. We had soup with cow and rice. Unfortunatly we passed on the cows knee and octopus.
After dinner, Mr. Willing took Jonathan and Joe to get their hair cut. Grace and I went along for the fun. The lady that did Joe's hair buzzed quite short! Plus she made a small hole in his hair. The Koreans hair styles look sort of European to me. Some aren't bad but some look like they were just struck with lightening!

A day at the hospital

Yesterday, Dad, Mom, and I went with pastor Kim to get my bloodwork done. We arrived at 8:30am and left at 3:00pm. What happened??? Well, we went into the international clinic where they said that the doctor had to see us but would not be in for a hour and a half. So we would have to wait. We did and Dad was DELIGHTED to see an American newspaper, Discovery Channel, and STARBUCKS!!!!!!!!! Anyways, we finally saw the doctor and he said that we needed to go get my bloodwork done and then see a specialist in dermatology. Well we had to wait 2 hours for my bloodwork and then we went to see the dermatologist. Like most Koreans she spoke little English so it made it longer. When we finally escaped from that dreadfully boring place, I almost danced! Dad had to push the car out of the way so we could get out.

Quote of the week

"Does it not stir up our hearts to go forth and help them, does it not make us long to leave our luxury, our exceeding abundant light and go to them that sit in darkness?"
~Amy Carmichael

How to comment

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Middleschool

Here is a picture of a cute little boy with his English teacher Krissy! He is only 5 but speaks English very well. He said his mom teaches him.

On 'fire' for highschool

Today, during the highschool discussion groups, a fire started in the building right next to us! It was on the top floor and so were we! (Rember, it wasn't in the same building) But we were breathing in the smoke. So a few of the moms to go check it out. They came back all panicked and worried and told us to evacuate immediately! So we all ran down the 8 fights of stairs withought thinking how tired we could have been. That's called adrenaline! Later we went to one of the top floors of another building to finish the co-op. At first it was disorganized but we quickly fixed that. Krissy's science group went well today. She divided them up into 3 or 4 small groups. I participated in one and it was alot of fun. One Korean boy was in charge of leading it and I thought he spoke better English than he did Korean! Dad's English group didn't do so well. He had the advanced students so he had us read an article on FDR vs. Ronald Reagan. He gave us 15 minuets to read it. There was a girl that spoke fluent English but, when the time was up, she said that she wanted to be put in an easier group. Then she started crying! She would put her paper up to her face to hide it and gain her composure but when dad started to talk or look at her she would start it all over again! She is a very sweet girl and her father is a creation scientist who is on 'fire' for homeschooling. Everything else went well though.
We came home to a crock-pot dinner. : )

The world keeps turning

Back home three familys are being overrun by my hamsters! They keep reproducing! The hamster that had most of the babies back home just had 6 more! I am learning that the world has many things going on. We aren't the only people.
Two weeks before we left, two hamsters had babies making the total of all my hamsters 22! Fortunatly 3 familys offered to take them. Even here in Korea they have hamsters!

Snails, octopus, and squid (oh, and dog!)

The other day we went out with another family (the Kims). They took us out to a strictly Korean restaurant. The amount of food was dictated by how much you pay ahead of time.It seemed to keep and coming and coming. Of course when you are eating Korean food no telling what they will bring you. We had several chances to try, what seemed like, uncooked squid and octopus. It probably was cooked though.
Here is a picture of Mr. and Mrs. Wiling that Krissy took.(not the captions)

Pottery!

Two days ago we went to a pottery musieum with an Awanas group. We got to make pottery and see the museum. Also we had a lesson in Korean tea. How to sit, hold, and pour the tea. Poor dad had to sit on the floor with little room to streach out. That was funny.