Who Are We? AFRICAN GLOBE TROTTERS!

In Christ?
Children of God, missionaries, servants, people with a purpose, but most of all SINNERS - forgiven by God's grace and made righteous by His mercy!

In the World?
We are South African's who have Australian resindency, whom have lived in Botswana, Zambia and are now living in South Korea as missionary teachers! And that's the short story. We are at a predominantly American IB school and are really loving it. I have added all our info of our lives in Korea so if you're interested then read on otherwise change Blogs!


So that was the preface: now for the novel on our life in Korea!!!

Chapter 1 :Our Goodye Africa, Hello World!

We left Africa for good on the 25 July 2005. We have put our immigration papers together for OZ and are off to South Korea for two years as missionary teachers - at a Christian International School. We had bought tickets to fly via the UK and then the school phoned us to say they wanted to change the tickets because they wanted Ken to do a course in Hawaii before coming to Daejeon. So we flew to Disney World for 5 days and then Hawaii for 5 days. We stayed in the Wakiki Beach Marriott Hotel, right on the beach, it was a holiday of a life time!

We are settling down nicely! Getting used to no car and walking to school! Not far though, two blocks! We have a huge apartment, two floors and four bedrooms, three bathrooms, two patios with scenic city views, an attic and office! We are in the penthouse suite of Click Apartments which is one of the many apartment blocks the school owns. The city viewed at night from our 5 th floor apartment is breath taking! Hundreds of red church crosses fill the sky. There are so many churches! The city is surrounded by mountains which lend to a wonderful back drop. The down side is we don't have a lift so we all walk up 5 flights everyday! The weather in August to October has been superb, sunny, gentle cool breeze really summery. Nothing like I've experienced before. Everything was so green and lush here, even in a built up city. We walk through a forest area to get to school and it's so refreshing. Hibiscus or Rose of Sharon (as they call them here) grow wild and in the lot opposite our apartment we have the most gorgeous array of flowers. I still have to get used to the smells of a city though and even though they collect rubbish everyday it still smells awful in the morning but on the way home it's all clean and fresher. Shanneth has settled in so beautifully. She is singing lots of new songs and has learnt two Bible verses. It's wonderful to see her so happy. Josh loves his class and teacher - he is doing so well. When it was his birthday and we took him ice skating at the nearby ice rink. Ethan is missing Mrs.DeJager! I am loving teaching, my grade 12's Science Fiction class is so challenging and interesting and my Grade 9 Writing and Literature groups are fun. Ken is very involved in the middle years and is working towards myp at TCIS. A couple of weekends ago we were taken to Geoggi province, for a staff retreat. All 235 staff (Admin, teaching, industrial - even the drivers were included.) The head and Board members hired a hotel and we all stayed in this marvellous 5 star hotel, all families too.

Food was excellent as were the cultural dances and shows! The kids had a whole fun programme set up while we had get to know you sessions, praise and worship times and a guest speaker - who was so inspiring. We had free time activities; ken : Golf , I went Shopping, Boys : beach, it was great to have all this sorted and paid for, you just got on the respective bus to the specific activity. We came back feeling so refreshed. Then we had a weekend where we were councilors for the Middle School retreat. Even the students go on weekend retreats! We went to Gego Island - a beach resort about 5 hours away by bus. We offered to do this retreat because I want to see as much as possible. It was stunningly beautiful! But better than that was the senior Praise Team's Worship jamming sessions. So cool but totally awesome! I felt like we were in heaven worshipping in the in direct presence of God. These kids are so sincere and yet totally cool, sold out for God. Josh, Ethan and Shannie were hoppin' 'n boppin' it was amazing to see our boys enjoying worship! We went to Zooland on Sunday and had a ball. We never knew that a Zoo can be a themepark! There are fantastic rides and somehow the kids weren't concerned with the animals! So after dragging the brats around we relented and enjoyed the autumn sun while they exhausted themselves on all the free rides! I never thought I would be greatful that they have red hair! But they are really easy to spot in Korea and keep a beady eye on!