March 11, 2012
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Graduations Part Deux
We didn’t just have high school graduations to attend, but also junior high and elementary school graduations. And in Korea the tradition is to eat to noodles with black sauce after graduation… so I had this same meal five or six times within about 12 days. Faaaaantastic. Here are some pics from the younger kids’ graduations…
With Ha Hyun
With a bunch of the now high schoolers (they were all in 3rd grade when I first arrived at the home!)… the boy at the bottom left is the younger brother to the girl right next to him
With Chae Hyun and his relatives
Pastor Chae with most of the junior high graduates
With Soo Hoon, who is now one of my basketball boys
With Ye Jin, our former manager’s daughter… I stayed with the manager my first few days at the children’s home and so Ye Jin was my first friend among the kids at the home… she was so young then, and now she is in 10th grade!
With Ye Jin shortly after I arrived in early 2006…
Sun Hee at her elementary school graduation… with her dorm mom to the left and her birth mom to the right
Sky and I with Sun Hee and her birth mom (her mom must have been really young when she had Sun Hee, she is younger than me and Sun Hee will be 13 this year… her mom visits Sun Hee once a month and hopes to take her back when she is finally able to provide for her financially)
With Hae Hyun and her report card that shows she got good marks on all her English grades… this is a huge praise because just a year ago when I started teaching her she had all bad marks and zero confidence, but now she is doing great!
With Dal Woo, another graduate (come on growth spurt!)
With Byung Ho, another yet to grow graduate (growth spurt! growth spurt!)
Dae Chul, one of the older boys who came to specifically support Byung Ho (who didn’t have any family or siblings to attend the graduation for him)
God is good! Blessings!
