Chapter 7: A New Chapter in our lives begins: Seeing Korea through new eyes:
I had a wonderful trip to Australia. I spent four nights with Ken's folks - looking for land to buy. We are wanting to buy land on the Gold Coast - Surfer's Paradise area. There are a couple of properties that are real possibilities now its up to the financing and trusting God stage! Please do pray for us to be sensitive to God's will in this regard. I also had a meeting with the school we would like our children to go to "Somerset College" - Christian school - web site: http://www.somerset.qld.edu.au/ while I was in OZ. It's a fantastic Christian IB school and I think the boys and Shannie will settle well there, our next chore is to get jobs either at the school or robbing banks! We are planning to move to Oz in 2010 and will then look at building our house but in the mean time we want to start paying off the land. I really loved the out-doors lifestyle and seeing all the kids on the beach and enjoying the out doors. The property / area is about 20 min from the school and is horse country - with the beach being 10 min away. Rolling hills, kookaburras, koalas, kangaroos and hundreds of gum trees everywhere.
I flew into Sydney on Wednesday evening and my IB Training course started on Thursday. It was tremendous and I now know enough to know that I actually know NOTHING!!! It is an excellent course; I felt so challenged. We had such fun and were rather shocked to find that we had been checked into the Penrith Panther's Rugby League Hotel. So consequently we were the only women in the hotel - which was hilarious at times and rather annoying at others. We manage to, for the most part, avoid the drunk brawling rugby players and had an excellent time shopping. Suppose that's why I had to pay excess baggage!
Korea is looking beautiful - Spring has sprung and blossoms are everywhere. Truly awesome and breathtaking almost summer days are sneaking up on us. There is a general lightness of spirit in the air which could also be the fact that we have just over a month until holidays too! On Saturday Ken and Josh and Ethan are off to Seoul to play in a touch rugby tournament and Shannie and I are off to Songtan on the school staff shopping trip. Josh and Ethan are in the junior rugby team and actually play an impressive game for their age. Look to be honest - these kids here are really soft! Our bruisers are definitely enjoying the sporting fame.
Shannie is making her own waves in the ELC. She is the lead piggy in "The little pigs meet little miss muffet" - she has 15 nursery rhymes to learn and is doing really well with them. I am not as confident as her teacher about wether she will perform on the night or not but it'll be cute anyway. Our other Oscar performer in the family is Terry (our cat) - at 17 she made her 1st debute in the school play "I remember Mama." She played the part of Uncle Elizabeth who is a cat mistakenly sexed as a tom cat. She was fantastic and just loved being carried around, stroked and fussed over. The seniors fell in love with her and she had everyone at her beck and call. Probably the funniest moment was when she was supposed to be dead and was off stage - but the cat minder became engrossed with the actresses' emotive "my cat's dead" scene and forgot to keep Terry off stage. So dear old Terry decided that she would resurrect before time and waltzed in before cue - which had everyone in hysterics including the cast and crew - who managed to salvage the scene by skipping forward to the end quickly! I was away for some of the performances and so I asked Josh and Ethan how Terry's acting went. Josh said "Well mom, she did pretty well - except for the parts where she forgot her lines!" Ethan then yelled "No Josh, it wasn't so bad, Hanna B only needed to speak twice for her because she forgot her words!" I then asked what she was supposed to say and in chorus they both said "Meoww!". Go figure - to use an American expression! Love to allChantal, Ken and the Zoo!
I had a wonderful trip to Australia. I spent four nights with Ken's folks - looking for land to buy. We are wanting to buy land on the Gold Coast - Surfer's Paradise area. There are a couple of properties that are real possibilities now its up to the financing and trusting God stage! Please do pray for us to be sensitive to God's will in this regard. I also had a meeting with the school we would like our children to go to "Somerset College" - Christian school - web site: http://www.somerset.qld.edu.au/ while I was in OZ. It's a fantastic Christian IB school and I think the boys and Shannie will settle well there, our next chore is to get jobs either at the school or robbing banks! We are planning to move to Oz in 2010 and will then look at building our house but in the mean time we want to start paying off the land. I really loved the out-doors lifestyle and seeing all the kids on the beach and enjoying the out doors. The property / area is about 20 min from the school and is horse country - with the beach being 10 min away. Rolling hills, kookaburras, koalas, kangaroos and hundreds of gum trees everywhere.
I flew into Sydney on Wednesday evening and my IB Training course started on Thursday. It was tremendous and I now know enough to know that I actually know NOTHING!!! It is an excellent course; I felt so challenged. We had such fun and were rather shocked to find that we had been checked into the Penrith Panther's Rugby League Hotel. So consequently we were the only women in the hotel - which was hilarious at times and rather annoying at others. We manage to, for the most part, avoid the drunk brawling rugby players and had an excellent time shopping. Suppose that's why I had to pay excess baggage!
Korea is looking beautiful - Spring has sprung and blossoms are everywhere. Truly awesome and breathtaking almost summer days are sneaking up on us. There is a general lightness of spirit in the air which could also be the fact that we have just over a month until holidays too! On Saturday Ken and Josh and Ethan are off to Seoul to play in a touch rugby tournament and Shannie and I are off to Songtan on the school staff shopping trip. Josh and Ethan are in the junior rugby team and actually play an impressive game for their age. Look to be honest - these kids here are really soft! Our bruisers are definitely enjoying the sporting fame.
Shannie is making her own waves in the ELC. She is the lead piggy in "The little pigs meet little miss muffet" - she has 15 nursery rhymes to learn and is doing really well with them. I am not as confident as her teacher about wether she will perform on the night or not but it'll be cute anyway. Our other Oscar performer in the family is Terry (our cat) - at 17 she made her 1st debute in the school play "I remember Mama." She played the part of Uncle Elizabeth who is a cat mistakenly sexed as a tom cat. She was fantastic and just loved being carried around, stroked and fussed over. The seniors fell in love with her and she had everyone at her beck and call. Probably the funniest moment was when she was supposed to be dead and was off stage - but the cat minder became engrossed with the actresses' emotive "my cat's dead" scene and forgot to keep Terry off stage. So dear old Terry decided that she would resurrect before time and waltzed in before cue - which had everyone in hysterics including the cast and crew - who managed to salvage the scene by skipping forward to the end quickly! I was away for some of the performances and so I asked Josh and Ethan how Terry's acting went. Josh said "Well mom, she did pretty well - except for the parts where she forgot her lines!" Ethan then yelled "No Josh, it wasn't so bad, Hanna B only needed to speak twice for her because she forgot her words!" I then asked what she was supposed to say and in chorus they both said "Meoww!". Go figure - to use an American expression! Love to allChantal, Ken and the Zoo!
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