Summer Camp

Summer camp has begun. The younger kids come in the morning from 9am to noon and the older students come from 1pm to 4pm. The first monday of the month is game day, so monday, August 3rd, we will play games all day long.

Lillian and Muriel are in English classes in the morning. They do listening excerises and writing as well. After lunch, they take the bus to Tae Kwan Doe. When they return to the school, they have Korean class. At 4pm, we clean the school and leave by 5pm. It makes for a long day to say the least.

All three children are doing well and learning a lot. The girls are using the Korean they have learned sometimes against their will. I refuse to speak for them and demand they talk for themselves. I will give Mikey his money to pay for his own snack or drink too. He is only 4 years old but there are things he CAN do. It is important for children to feel they have some control in their lives. Even if it is only deciding whether to drink milk or water, that decision making builds into other aspects of their lives.

The girls have gotten pretty good at demonstrating their skills in TKD. Mikey likes to show us what he learns as well. It's so cute to ask him what he did today in TKD then we ask him to show us. He has the form down pretty well and can throw some good punches and kicks. I'm sure he'll be using them against his sister's soon enough. He just hasn't figured it out that he can use the techniques on a person yet. I'm not telling him either. That would not be good parenting on my part to encourage him to use his hands and feet instead of his words to express himself.

The children are very tired at the end of their day. Some days we go some where after school. Then we hussle the kids off to bed and hope they fall asleep sooner rather than later.

Look at ME!

Mikey has become a dare devil. He is so confident and head strong. He sees a challenge and goes for it. At the fountain, he jumped from stone to stone and through the water. At first, he said it was too cold. With some prompting from the Korean children, Mikey took off and never looked back!

What's wrong with this picture???

Notice the children on top of the slide? WHERE are their parents? What, is nobody going to tell those kids to get down before they break a bone? You should have seen Muriel and Mikey when they thought it would be fun to join them. I pulled out my trusty spoon and made my point loud and clear- there will be NO CLIMBING!

Mikey's new shoes

Mikey got new shoes! He actually out grew the Thomas the Train shoes we bought before we came to Korea. He really likes the new ones. They are light weight and well ventilated.

High Heels go with EVERYTHING

Well, this lady isn't too bad. The shoes sorta match. BUT you should see these women try to walk in high heels. It's like watching penguins! The tip toe or walk with their feet shouldre width apart and clomp down the street. Not a single one of them has realize that you walk with ONE foot in front of the OTHER!

Oh, come on!

The fashion here is just amazing. At some point, women loose all sense and just put clothes on. Sometimes you get lucky and the pants and top have similar colors. Take this lady for example, close but no cookie!

Heart Shaped Fountain

After a long day shopping, the kids saw this park while driving and begged to stop. So, Jessica did...right there on the street and we jumped out of the car and RAN! And then they ran and ran and ran all over the place. They had a lot of fun and got all wet too. We stripped them down and made them ride home barely clothed. Mikey had nothing but underwear on, Muriel had to wear my shirt and a pair of happy face shorts and Lillian got panties and a shirt. They really didn't mind since they got to play in the water.