November 24, 2006

• Shalom room and kim-jang day, with an extra pic of Pastor Lee and his family

  Most of the boys in Shalom room are 7th – 10th grade (the first two boys are 4th grade)… so a lot of these boys are in the “no smile” phase for pictures… a few of them took a ton of pleading to get them to let me take a picture of them… so this post took some extra work than others

  Dong Chan

  

  Chae Hyun and Ms. Kim dorm mother

  

  Sung Kee

  

  Young Jin (he wasn’t smiling, but i got one of the other boys to do something goofy beside me and caught him in a half-smile)

  

  Yo Han

  

  Dae Chul and Mi Jin dorm mother

  

  Chae Young

  

  Young Sun (that was the most I could get him to smile for the picture, but don’t worry, he does smile for real sometimes)

  

  Choong Hyuk

  

  Soo Min (he was too shy to take a regular picture by himself, so i stood with him)

  

  Do Hyun (he really dislikes pictures, so after a lot of coaxing this was the best picture i could get… another picture of Do Hyun is below)

  

  In Chul (in his high school uniform… all the kids have to wear uniform in middle school and high school)

  

  Chae Ho

  

  Yong Hee

  

  Chae Ho, Do Hyun, and me at their middle school graduation last February

  

  Yong Hee and Chae Hyun

  

  Vampire Sung Kee

  

  Choong Hyuk loves the camera…

  

  He really loves the camera…

  

  Soo Min was so shy when I first asked him to take a picture that he wanted only In Chul to take his picture in another room… but then the goof only had In Chul take pictures of him doing tae-kwon-do moves!  So I made him take a regular picture, but he only would if I was in it (and that pic was posted above)… these kids are goofballs

  

  Kim Jang! (kimchi preparation day)… Usually kim-jang is a one day event, but because we were making kimchi for about 100 people to feed us for one year, this was a two day event for us with almost all the staff working along with a number of volunteers.  This was all pretty crazy stuff… I found it ironic that on Thanksgiving Day I wasn’t just eating kimchi, I was making it!  Enjoy the pics…

  The beginning of the process… cutting up the cabbage, getting rid of the bad parts (my job here was carrying the crates of good cabbage to the washing area and carrying the scraps to our compost heap… this all took about 4 hours)

  

  The cabbage salting and washing area… also volunteers are working on shaving the outsides of the radishes…

  

  Kwon-sa-neem… our orphanage “grandmother.”  She has been doing these kim-jangs for a looong time

  

  Duk-bok-gee break (I think I got that konglish right?)

  

  Day two, some of the dorm mothers are slicing up the radishes into french fry type strands

  

  Min Kyung and Mi Jin dorm mothers at one of the cabbage washing bowls… those bowls are all loaded with cabbage from top to bottom, and there was more then in this picture…

  

  Mi Jung dorm mother

  

  The dorm mothers and volunteers working on stuffing the salted, washed and dried cabbages with the radishes, onions, chili peppers, fish oil, and seemingly a billion other mini ingredients… yay for kimchi smell!

  

  The final step… carrying the kimchi into the kimchi cave where it is put into kimchi containers and left to ferment… I overheard that we will begin eating this kimchi next summer and it will last us until the summer of 2008… I didn’t even know this cave existed until I had to go in it, it was always boarded up and I thought it was just a storage shed… oh, and this picture was taken halfway into the cave

  

  Pastor Lee and his family (Samonim (Mrs. Lee his wife) on the left, his older son In Soo in the middle, his younger son Kyung Soo on the bottom right)… Pastor Lee is the pastor of the community church inside our orphanage where all our kids also attend

  

  I hope you all enjoyed the pics and had a blessed Thanksgiving! 

  Aaron Shust – My Savior My God

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