Thursday, August 28, 2008

5 Weeks in Korea

One of the blessings of summer adventures are new paths I discover.
Another part of the adventure is discovering a new city--Seoul.
Working with children is always a blessing for me-- their desire to learn and their love for life is an encouragement.
The last blessing is working with and developing new friendships. Mr. Choi and Rhianoana became very good friends.
I thought you might enjoy seeing a Korean manicure. It begins with picking very special flowers adding a mineral of some sort and crushing it together to make a paste.
The paste is applied to each nail bed and then individually wrapped.
This is how I went to bed! The next morning I removed the plastic wrap to reveal my new "beautiful" nails.
Actually, this picture makes them more beautiful. Did I mention this permanent until the first snow!! I am a little concern about the first snow as Redding doesn't always get snow in the winter.

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Monday, August 25, 2008

Summer in South Korea

One of the many sites I was able to enjoy this summer was the Hwaseong Fortress which was built in1794. It was built to protect the area from invading armies. The fort is surrounded by the growing city of Suwon.
Lynn Wiens and I were in Korea for 5 weeks working at 5 different ESL camps throughtout the city of Seoul and Suwon. The tour of the fort was a nice break from teaching.

There was an interesting show of 24 different types of martial arts used to fight invading armies.



Monday, June 16, 2008

Visiting In Florida

FLORIDA

June 12--19


Great Fun--Ft. Lauderdale Children's Museum--an afternoon of interacting with science experiments.
Great Fun--Father's Day at Hallandale Beach--swimming, sunburning and eating!!!
Great Fun--Playing Charades at home--Drew and I were a team--What are we doing??? You are right the twist.
Great Fun--Grandma being tortured--playing beauty shop--Derek was "Bon" from France and was great at hairstyling; Macie was Nikki from Laughville and was great at nails; Madison was Miss Sally from Africa and was great with details; and Drew he was just Drew in the midst of the confusion!!