It's 2 am on Friday, so you'll have to check back sometime in the next 12 hours. I'm not living up to my promise from the previous post, but I've had a super long day, and need 3 hours sleep at least, before I prepare to catch my taxi, to the bus station, which will then take me to the Busan Airport.
UPDATE:
Hello from Seattle. So I arrived here in Seattle at 7:30 am Friday (Seattle time, 12:30 am on Saturday in Korea, or if you're from other parts of the world -- calculate yourself!!). I left Busan on Friday morning (wait it's Friday again, how cool!!), and flew to Tokyo/Narita Airport, before a nine hour flight here to Seattle. In a few hours I'll head to Memphis.
BACK TO THE POST
So Wednesday was Eun Byeol's High School graduation. By the way, I've never mentioned this, but byeol in Korean means star. So on Wednesday I got to attend my first high school graduation Korea. High schools in Korea are three years, since their middle schools are three years as well. Eun Byeol went to Daegu Girl's High School, which is a really well known high school in the Daegu area. The ceremony was nothing like what you'd see in the good 'ole USA at a high school graduation.
We did the usuals first, Korean National Anthem, and Pledge of Allegiance. Then they handed out awards to various students for best grades, most improved, those who never missed a day (1/3 of the group, but only one student came forward), those who never missed a day or were ever late, and some who received awards in certain subjects as well. There were some of the school staff members who gave speeches as well,.
When the ceremony was over, we met up with Eun Byeol and her friends, and took pictures, and also took some family pictures. Then she had to go to her homeroom, get her yearbook presented to her, and share some last laughs and hugs with her classmates and teacher.
We ate a good lunch after with Grandma (who had to stay and work at the bathhouse during the ceremony), and then I bought everyone some Baskin Robbin's Ice Cream, to top things off.
Here are some pictures. I'll follow up laster with a short post about my humbling experience Thursday night
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| Brother Koo testing out the camera |
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| Eun Byeol, with her mom and dad |
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| Korean National Anthem |
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| Sitting with her friends |
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| Pretty good shot by Woo Yeup |
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| Let's get this bald guy in our picture too |
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| Mom and Daughter |
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| Family Picture (sort of) |
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| with my Korean brother and sister |
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| with Poppa Koo |
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| with Momma and Poppa Koo |
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| Eun Byeol and her homeroom class |
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