February 16, 2008
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This past week I attended three different high school graduations and I attended a fourth one a couple weeks ago. We have 8 kids that graduated high school (four different schools) this year and they all will be leaving the home in the next week. Its a sad time to see them go and it can be stressful for them as they face living life on their own for the first time. But we at least are able to have a good time at the graduations and then eat a good meal together afterwards. Here are some of the pictures from the graduations...
With Min Ho and his younger sister Eun Jin (on his left)
Kyung Mi dorm mother with Min Ho
With So Young and her dorm mother Min Kyung
With Soo Hwan
With Choong Hee
With Go Hyun, Pastor Chae, and Soo Hwan... you might notice Soo Hwan's hair is a bit white... at high school graduations in Korea the kids will throw flour and eggs at each other after the ceremony and rip up each other's uniforms... the reason being they will never have to wear the uniform again and they want to ruin it in the most fun and insane way possible... Min Ho (the boy in the first pictures) had his uniform jacket so destroyed and ripped that he threw it away and then washed his face before the pictures... crazy kids...
With Go Hyun, Pastor Lee (pastor of the church in the orphanage), Kyung Min, and Sang Kook
Go Hyun with two girls who used to live in Geon and graduated a couple years ago... Soo Jin and Yoo Ree
Go Hyun and Kyung Min with their dorm father Dong Min
The high schoolers weren't the only graduates... we also had one girl (Hyun Hee) graduate from junior high school and four kids (no pictures of them, time conflict) graduate from elementary school
Here I am helping one of our elementary school graduates, Byung Chul, set his new watch (graduation present) while we ate a celebratory lunch together
God bless!
