Chinn Stew: This and That!

It hardly seems possible that we've only been in Korea for five weeks. While we miss our friends and family back home, Anaheim seems a distant memory at times. We continue to feel extremely blessed by the gift of this year in Korea. There are responsibilities that come with the year and we seek to fulfill our role as we seek to be good stewards to the Lord, to Trinity and to Handong. Homeschooling is proving to be a wonderful challenge to both mom and the kids. After school field trips and play time with friends fill the kids' afternoons and evenings. We've yet to hear an "I'm bored" from any of the three. The kids are starting to feel comfortable enough with Korean to say "thank you" and "hello" to the bus driver and the store clerks. Since everyone on the campus speaks English, it takes some effort to get the kids to try to speak Korean. Each child has a volunteer student tutor that comes twice a week to teach them conversation Korean.

After being shut in for an ENTIRE day yesterday, the kids were anxious to get out and explore. We took the shuttle into town, then selected a random city bus to ride around to explore parts of the city unfamiliar to us. Today the kids finally got their wish to stand on the bus as the bus was crowded. They held the side posts or hang onto the handles from the ceiling and try their best to not go flying from stop to stop. That novelty wore off quickly and they were wishing they had seats on the return trip. Below are some pictures from today and few from various events the past week or so.

Waiting for the bus.