tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86650632423134568072024-02-19T04:25:19.788-08:0037° N, 127° EStephanieLynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03347042235200025619noreply@blogger.comBlogger71125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8665063242313456807.post-83470158900872026902013-07-24T18:42:00.002-07:002013-07-24T18:42:17.933-07:00Happy Birthday Dad! From Eddie<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br />Happy Birthday Dad! </div>
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Thanks for always taking such good care of mom and I. We really love you. </div>
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Here are a few of my favorite memories with you dad! Eddie and Joe, the two best friends! </div>
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I was SO little when I was a baby!</div>
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Your my best friend! Remember when I was a baby and I would wake you up
in the middle of the night, so I could make eye contact with you, then
I'd pee all over the places? A lot has changed! Now I just wake you up
in the middle of the night so you and I can have our 3AM walks! You're
the best! </div>
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When I turned 21 years old you gave me my first sip of beer! You and me are Bud Light guys!</div>
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Even though you're kinda a cat guy, you let me steal the cats toys and grandma and grandpa's house! Remember last summer when I snuck out of the house and ate ALL the cat poop I could find! Delicious! I think I might of had too much cause when I came back in the house I threw up all over grandma's white carpet, oops! Thanks for helping me clean that up! Mom was really mad at me that time. <br />
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And even though mom says it's not safe, you let me help you drive sometimes. I love getting to see all the cars and bark at the bad drivers! Remember when we moved to Tualatin and I got really sick in the car? You had to take me to the emergency room! Turns out I just had some acid reflex from lunch! hahaah But the $400 was worth the piece of mind, right? <br />
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I'm sorry I always take over your side of the bed. It's just more comfortable. And you are THE BEST snuggle partner! <br />
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Rain or shine, you always make sure I get my walk in the park! It's my favorite time of day. You always help me find birds to chase and distract mom when I want to roll in something dead. </div>
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Happy Birthday dad! I love you! xoxo Eddie</div>
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<br />StephanieLynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03347042235200025619noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8665063242313456807.post-3636036913032605672013-07-24T17:23:00.000-07:002013-07-24T17:23:08.813-07:00Happy Birthday Joe!Happy 31st birthday Joe! <br />
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I love you more than words. Sometimes I want to pinch myself to make sure our lives are real! We have already had SO many fun adventures, I can't even imagine what other shenanigans we are going to get out selves into! <br />
Thank you for being the missing puzzle piece. Making me feel complete. Thank you for being the calm to my storm. Thank you for getting all the stuff on the top shelf and walking the dog in the rain. Thank you for pushing me to be the best I can be in all situations. Thank you for being my teaching partner, gluing sparkles and reading books. Thank you for being my gym partner. Getting me out of bed in the morning is no easy task some days! haha I love you!<br />
Happy Birthday to my very favorite human!<br />
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A little photo tribute to my best friend and husband today.<br />
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<br />StephanieLynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03347042235200025619noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8665063242313456807.post-76964616580806748112013-05-14T03:50:00.002-07:002013-05-14T03:50:57.080-07:00Happy 60Th Birthday Dad! <br />
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<![endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 굴림; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 굴림; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">I guess the Randall Jr. have a little birthday blogging tradition around here. This little post is dedicated to Mr. Randall Sr. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 굴림; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 굴림; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> Happy 60th birthday! I hope it was
memorable. I just wanted to let you know how much you mean to me.
You are the man I truly look up to and admire. I admire you for your work
ethic, your knowledge and your sacrifices you have made for your family.
You are truly a great man. You have raised successful and happy children
who admire and love you very much. Your wife has stuck by your side
for over half of your life, you have individually become a very successful
businessman doing something you love. And the best part about you is,
that everyone who knows you or has dealt with you in any form, always has the
same words to describe you. "Mike is a loyal and honest man who
they respect." People have to earn respect and you have earned it
throughout your life, everywhere you go. I am so proud to call you my
dad. I love you very much and look forward to spending time with you in a
short few months.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 굴림; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 굴림; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Happy Birthday Mike! </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 굴림; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 굴림; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">I always had a dad growing up. I was never one of those
girls who would seek the attention of a father figure. I never expected to gain
another dad when I married Joe. But that’s what happened. Not only did I get to
marry a wonderful man but I gained a second set of parents. I don't think I
could have been any luckier. </span></div>
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You're the kind of man that leads by example. You’re not a huge talker. You'd
never tell us what to do or how to act unless we wanted your advice. And even
then you would be sure to make it clear that it is simply your opinion, your
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you’ve told me you were proud of me. Out of the blue, for no reason but to tell
me I’ve made you proud. Just for being me. It’s one of the best feelings,
knowing your dad loves you and appreciates you and your hard work. It means
more knowing you said it because you wanted to. Not at an event, not to get attention
for yourself, just because you felt it. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 굴림; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 굴림; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">You’re passionate and devoted.
Your strong willed and hard working. You pass on your passions and share your
hobbies with your family. You're a true father, not just a weekend dad.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 굴림; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 굴림; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> A few summers ago you took Joe and I
on a tour of the mill and then for a mini tour of some of the land you
were working on and processing. Watching you and seeing the pride you
have in your work is inspiring. I want to have career like you. A job I
want to show off and am proud of. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 굴림; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 굴림; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"></span></div>
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vacations. You’ve let us learn how to be adults and grow into our roles in the family.
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special day and sleep well knowing you have a family that truly,
unconditionally loves you and thinks you are the greatest dad! </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 굴림; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 굴림; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">xoxo Stephanie </span></div>
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I wanted tot take some time and blog about the best wife a man
could ask for. As you may know, it is Stephanie's 28th birthday May
9th. Stephanie has been "politely" hinting at the fact that we have
been here for two years and I have yet to blog about anything so I
figured a perfect time to blog would to be about Stephanie.</div>
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We have been here almost 2 years now, with a couple geat very memorable
vacations thrown in there but for the most part, working 5 days a week
10-7. It has started to feel like groundhogs day...as they say here,
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Through all of it, Stephanie has
been the rock that has kept us positive and upbeat. On the days where I
want to tell my boss off or kick a side of a car that almost hits me in
a cross walk or elbow people who have no idea how to wait in line, walk
on a sidewalk or wait for an elevator (because there have been A LOT of
those days) she is great at reminding me why we are here and points out
all of the positive things that have came from this experience. With
out her, I would not have been able to experience so much in my life,
the places we have been, the people we have met, the memories we have
made all in a short few years of being married. I am so excited to
spend the rest of my life with her and continue making countless
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I am so proud of my wife, it is unreal. She is the best teacher I
have ever met, everyday I see her with the children, I am in awe. She
has this talent of being able to connect with every kid in a special way
which makes me strive to be better. She is also the most determined
person I know. If she wants something, there is nothing that is going
to hold her back, she has the belief in herself and work ethic to
achieve anything. Stephanie is also one of the most humble people I
know. For all her talents and beauty, she still acts as if none of that
matters. I love the way she can be proud of herself and be confident,
but in a way where no one would ever feel threatened or
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I just wanted to wish Stephanie a happy birthday and tell her that I
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Joe
and I ran a 1/2 marathon last weekend. During the week before at school I was a
bit nervous. Then with perfect timing it just so happened that "nervous" was a vocabulary word in
one of my <a href="http://37n127e-js.blogspot.kr/2013/04/babies-and-belly-buttons.html" target="_blank">2nd grade</a> classes.<br />
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I
described nervous as a feeling when you're a little bit scared, a
little bit excited and sometimes have a funny feeling in your tummy.<br />
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I
used the example that I was a little nervous about the 1/2 marathon. I am a little bit excited about running, I am a little bit scared of how
far and for how long I have to run. I am also a little nervous about making my goal time of under 2 hours. <br />
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They seemed to understand and the class continued without a hitch. Class finished and they were off to their next class.<br />
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Well,
it just so happened that this 2nd grade class had Joe's class next.
They had to take a test and when they were finished they got to have
some free time. They usually play Uno or solve crossword puzzles. But
this time they asked if they could make me good luck letters and cards
because I was so nervous about my run. (how freaking cute is that!) Well
at the end of the day I was bombarded with good lucks and cute cards.<br />
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Check these cards out:<br />
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"To: Ms. Stephanie, Hi, I am Dana. I am writing you a letter because of your race. I wish you could win. I did color purple on the "Good Luck" because you like purple. Do you like it? And again, I wish you could win. Love, Dana"<br />
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I LOVE this drawing of Joe and I. It's hard to see but Joe is wearing a U of O hat. The one he has that is green with a yellow "o". And yes, Joe does have a sward oh his hip. How else does he defend his princess? <br />
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A mini book by Angela; "Hello! Ms. Stephanie! I'm Angela. I listen that you will go to race. I hope you that win the race!!" </div>
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"Ms. Stephanie. I will cheer you in Friday!!! So don't worry about that!! You can run 13.1 miles! You can do it!"</div>
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"Ms. Stephanie Gook luck in your race! 13.2 miles is sooooooo far! (arrow pointing down) 2 hour" <br />
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"To Ms. Stephanie Good Luck in your race (13.1 miles is sooooo far)"</div>
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I hope you win but I think there is faster people than you. </div>
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(It's hard to tell but on my shirt there is a 1st crossed out, then a 2nd crossed out, but the 3rd place is clearly written) </div>
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I love all of the cards and notes! These kids are so creative and thoughtful. I was still nervous on race day but these good luck cards/notes did help. <br />
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<br />StephanieLynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03347042235200025619noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8665063242313456807.post-15822815489912092162013-04-14T07:24:00.000-07:002013-04-14T07:24:08.346-07:00Babies and Belly ButtonsThe little people Joe and I get to work with are hilarious. They do and say really funny things. They are smart and quick witted. They really do keep us on our toes. Lots of funny things have been happening lately and I don't want to forget them. Enjoy.<br />
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Just a few tid-bits from lately:<br />
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On where babies come from....kinda.<br />
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I have started a count down in my classroom, 90 days until Ms. Stephanie and Mr. Joe go home to the United States. I change the number at the end of every day after the kids have gone home. One class of second graders came in and were discussing how sad they will be when we leave.<br />
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Dana asks; "Ms. Stephanie, why do you want to go to the United States?"<br />
Me: "Well, I want to have a baby. I want to grow a baby in my tummy in the United States"<br />
Dana: "Oh so you don't love Mr. Joe in Korea?"<br />
Me: "What?!? No, I love Mr. Joe in Korea, what do you mean?"<br />
Dana: "My mom said that when a mommy and daddy love each other VERY VERY much,then a baby will come. So you must not love Mr. Joe in Korea."<br />
Me. "........um....yeah, I guess you're right, I will love Mr. Joe more in the United States"<br />
Dana: "Is Mr. Joe sad that you don't love him in Korea?<br />
Me: "Mr. Joe knows that I love his as much as I can in Korea, but we can not have a baby here."<br />
Dana: "I guess you're right, it would be weird if YOU had a Korean baby."<br />
Me: "Yes, I don't think the baby people would let me have a Korean baby."<br />
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Belly Buttons <br />
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A few weeks ago a kindergartener, Jacob, drew a lovely picture of me. He drew long dark hair, five fingers in each hand and a lovely pair of legs. Unfortunately for me, he also drew me without any clothes on! I just had a big round peach body, with a belly button. We laughed and laughed. Jacob thought he was the king of the room. It was funny.<br />
Well a few days later Jacob needed help taking his sweatshirt off. He was pulling it and it got caught on his head, exposing HIS belly button. We all had a good laugh. And Jacob was renamed Belly Button Jacob. <br />
In true kid fashion, they will not drop the belly button thing. We have had a few tickle attacks and I drew a funny picture of "The Belly Button Boys of BIS". Jacob even tried to reach down my shirt one day to get to my belly button. So I knew I had to put an end to the hunt for Ms. Stephanie's belly button.<br />
I told the kids my belly button fell off. It was a lie but it is SO worth it. I told the kids that when I was a little girl I was really sick. I had to go to the hospital. It was a really bad tummy ache and the doctor had to give me lots of medicine. And because I was so sick, my belly button fell off. As simple as that, I do not have a belly button, stop looking/asking about it!<br />
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Jayden wrote a cute journal the other day:<br />
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"My best friends are Alex and Ms. Stephanie. I like her because she has a cute little monkey belly button. She is so funny and sometimes she sees Mr. Joe's belly button. Sometimes she puts me in the trash can. Alex is so so fun. I want touch Ms. Stephanie's belly button. I love Alex. I met Alex when I was 6 years old at BIS. We play together at play time and sit by each other in class. He is my best friend."<br />
First of all, he has NEVER seen my belly button. But thank you Jayden, it is a cute little monkey belly button. :) Secondly, how cute is this little journal? I'm glad he thinks of me as his friend. <br />
I am afraid that the belly button will not die. All of the boys call me "Belly Button Ms. Stephanie".<br />
They are pretty cute, I'm really going to miss these boys. <br />
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M and D send (on average) a package a month! (I told you we are spoiled!)<br />
Well, now that we are in the final count down until it is time to say good bye to Korea, we talked M and D into sending one last package. M and D said that the last package would cover every holiday until we got home. And that wasn't a lie. <br />
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Joe and I each got the goods to make our favorite birthday desserts. Brownies for me, peach cobbler for Joe. All of the holidays were covered. Cadbury Eggs for Easter, four leaf clovers for St. Patrick's Day and even a very festive hat for the 4th of July! So many goodies! Our cupboards and tummies are full! </div>
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Last month we got a surprise package from our friends the Brown's. Josh, Leah and baby Cooper sent us a package full of goodies.</div>
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Here are a few of my favorite Instagram pics from the last few months.<br />
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My favorite is the black and white of Joe and Eddie. Oh how I love my boys! And I love our Sunday cuddles on the couch. Joe said his favorite was the picture of our lock from N. Seoul Tower, over looking Seoul. <br />
Oh and look at the personality in my little dog. hahaha It seems like in every picture I take of him he is showing off a different side of himself. I love that little ball of fluff!<br />
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<br />StephanieLynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03347042235200025619noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8665063242313456807.post-83463663063974376092013-03-21T20:40:00.000-07:002013-03-22T19:27:43.155-07:00"I can read them all!"<br />
You might remember <a href="http://37n127e-js.blogspot.kr/2013/01/meet-competition.html" target="_blank">Erin-Oh</a> from her previous shenanigans.<br />
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Well, the beginning of the school year was March 4th and my schedule got switched around a bit. Now I get to teach phonics. It's not my favorite subject and it's not my favorite curriculum but we are working with it. Actually, we are working REALLY hard! Phonics is hard to learn and to be honest it's hard to teach. (Teacher friends:It's a very scripted program that is taught separately from any reading group)<br />
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We worked all week on the "en" letter combo sound. We have chants and songs, we sing, we read, we write....it has been a very busy week.<br />
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Erin let me record her reading our chant in class the other day. <br />
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I am SUPER proud of her. This is not an easy program to learn and she is really catching on. She has bought into all of the little gimmicks of the program and the rewards.<br />
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Not to mention she is the cutest little thing. Erin is so much fun to teach. She likes school. She likes learning. And, I can have fun with her without her getting too off track. <br />
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This is her new favorite face. She makes it whenever she makes a mistake or is confused. If another classmate does something odd (which is often). This face is usually followed by "oh my". <br />
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I know the last time I talked about Erin-Oh she was trying to steal my husband. Lucky for me, she found a boy in her class that will be her new Prince Charming. <br />
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StephanieLynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03347042235200025619noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8665063242313456807.post-76171882604758347392013-03-04T04:39:00.002-08:002013-03-04T04:39:41.694-08:00Valentine's Day at BISAlthough Valentine's day is celebrated in Korea, it is celebrated very differently here than it is in the US.<br />
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In Korea they have 3 different "love" themed holidays. Valentine's Day, White Day and Black Day. They are celebrated on February 14, March 14, April 14 respectively. <br />
On Valentine's Day, men give chocolates to women.<br />
On White Day, women give chocolates to men.<br />
And on Black Day all the single people go out and eat noodles with black bean paste and celebrate/cry about being single.<br />
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Joe and I don't celebrate Valentine's Day. I am not a big fan of forced affection so basically that means Joe is off the hook and, lets be honest, he's ok with that. <br />
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But as a teacher, I LOVE VALENTINE"S DAY!<br />
It's one of those holidays that you can really get into without offending anyone. I always tell my students it's not just about telling someone you love them but even telling your friends that you are happy to know them. There are SO many great lessons to learn on Valentine's Day. Sharing, supporting one another, being nice to someone even though they may not be your best friend. I love Valentine's day!<br />
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Somehow I convinced my boss that we should have a Valentine's day party with the kindergartners. I planned the whole thing! An entire day of Valentines day fun!<br />
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In the weeks leading up to Valentine's day I sent a letter home to parents explaining how to make Valentines day cards and that we would be giving them to each other. I spent some time in each class making valentines and talking about how we need to make one card for each of our Friends at BIS.<br />
The Friday before Valentines day during art class we made "mail boxes", to collect our cards. Those "mail-boxes" were a HUGE hit!<br />
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Are they not SO cute being all serious decorating their mail boxes? I think they turned out great! <br />
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On Valentine's day the kids played mail carrier and delivered all of
their letters. It took them fooorever to deliver all of their letters. It was good practice with reading and matching the names from the cards to the names on the mail boxes. Some of the kids that finished quickly were able to help a friend deliver mail. Obviously it was super cute! <br />
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After the letters were delivered the kids were able to
travel around the school from station to station on their own.<br />
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We had games in the gym with Mr. Joe<br />
Valentine's day BINGO with Ms. Cathy<br />
Face painting with Ms. Hanna<br />
Manicure station with Ms. Ramos<br />
Cereal necklaces and heart bracelets with Ms. Jessica and Ms. Vicky<br />
Bead bracelets and heart hats with Ms. Stephanie<br />
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The kids traveled to each station, when they finished a station they got a stamp on their Valentine's day "passport".<br />
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Some how the paparazzi missed Joe's station. But as you can see the kids are cute and they had fun! <br />
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Before
lunch the kids all got to dig into their mail boxes and read their
Valentines day cards. This was by far my favorite part of the day. The
kids were so cute reading the cards from their friends. What I loved
most was that each card was hand made. Cute little kid writing, with
fragment sentences and "I love you's".<br />
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Joe and I each picked out and gave valentines to the kids. I searched Pinterest for the perfect teacher valentine. Joe picked a glow stick bracelet valentine that I found <a href="http://kommunicated.com/2012/01/glow-stick-valentines/" target="_blank">here</a>. I made it pretty easy for him...all he had to do was sign his name. The kids LOVED his valentine. I think he out shined me. (haha,
did you see what I did there?..he gave a glow stick..he out shined
me...*shrugs shoulders*)<br />
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This is the only picture I have of Joe's little valentine. They were a big hit! The kids loved the glow stick bracelets. Obviously you can tell this kid LOVED it! haha <br />
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I gave CANDY! I love candy. And I knew that
none of the children would think to bring candy. I found the the perfect
candy bag label <a href="http://sharonrowanphotodesign.blogspot.kr/2012/02/valentines-day-free-download-day-one.html?showComment=1360651655421" target="_blank">here</a>.
I wrote a little note, maybe 4 sentences to each student and stapled
the note and paper candy bag topper to a little zip lock bag of candy!<br />
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My favorite part of my valentines was watching the kids read the little notes I wrote to them. I used the nicknames I have for the kids and wrote something personal for each kid. It was fun to see them get excited about a note just for them. <br />
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It was the perfect Valentine's day party! <br />
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<br />StephanieLynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03347042235200025619noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8665063242313456807.post-40218982394499080142013-03-03T17:26:00.001-08:002013-03-03T17:26:52.994-08:00173173 days left in Korea. I am not usually a count-down kind of person....unless its Christmas...but it came to my attention some time last week that we only have 6 months left here.<br />
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I can not believe it!<br />
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We have been struggling here the last few months, but the realization that we have such a short time left here has given us a pick me up. This is our last first day of school in Korea. This is our last spring. We just had our last Kinder graduation!<br />
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The count down in on and I am SO excited. I am excited to breath in all of our "lasts" with fresh new eyes and I am excited to check off some "to-do's" off of our Korea bucket list. StephanieLynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03347042235200025619noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8665063242313456807.post-29202841277870567352013-02-20T07:23:00.000-08:002013-02-20T07:23:21.984-08:00Happy Birthday Debooooora! What do you get the best mother in law in the world for her birthday? Naturally, you blog about her awesomeness and how amazing she is. AND because I love my mother in law SO much I even convinced her son to join in on the blogging fun today! Yay!<br />
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Happy Birthday Debooora! I love you and am more grateful everyday that I get to have you in my life!<br />
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Ok, before we get too sappy... <br />
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From Joe:<br />
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<u>Blind Spot</u><br />
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"We were all in the car one day... I guess we were on a trip back to the "farm" (Elmira), ya know we took a big trip "to town" (Eugene). Mom was driving, I think I was siting in the front seat. As we pull up my parents private road that leads to their driveway. Mom just starts screaming and yelling. "I CAN'T SEE, I CAN'T SEE!" All the while pushing the accelerator. As we advance up the road with a blind driver, I calmly suggest that she stops the car. I think it went something like this.<br />
Mom- " I can't see, I can't see...!!!! ahhh"<br />
Me(Joe)- "So stop driving! What are you doing"<br />
Mom- "I don't know, I just thought I would tell you I can't see."<br />
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Safety first !<br />
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Now whenever Stephanie or I see mom doing something funny, we say "I can't see!" <br />
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<br /><u>My Cat Keeper</u><br />
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Back in college, my roommate Adam, had a cat. She got around. Before Adam and I were roommates the cat had been pregnant but all of her kittens died. He later found out that the kittens died because mama cat didn't produce any milk. Well, as they say, history repeats itself and before we knew it mama cat was going to be a mama again. Being the responsible young men that we were, we knew what we had to do. We took care of mama cat while she was pregnant, but we knew that when the kittens were born we would have to be the ones to feed them.<br />
Mama cat and I were friends. She even tried to make her nest in my closet (ripping up my Penny Hardaway poster) but I wasn't having that. I locked her out of my room until she had her kitties. <br />
After the kittens were born another roommate Jed, (there were 5 of us living together at the time) and I took charge of feeding the kittens. For about 4 weeks, 3 times a day or more, Jed and I would use a baby bottle and hand feed each of the 5 kittens.<br />
When they got old enough to eat on their own it was time to ship them out. I had become attached to the runt of the litter (Munchkin) and kitten with a huge head (Beastie). I don't know how it happened, but out of all the people that came to take a kitten home no one wanted my favorite kitties, Munchkin and Beastie. So I decided that I should keep them. But I didn't have a place to keep them....so I took them home to my parents house. The deal was that my parents would look after them for a few months until my lease was up and I got my own place. Well 10 years later, Munchkin is still living with my parents. ("We"(they) lost Beastie this winter (sad))They were both just so happy with my mom and dad that I didn't feel right pulling them from a loving home. <br />
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Fast forward a few more years and I met Stephanie and we decided to move to South Korea. Well I had 2 indoor cats, Baby Boy and Baby Girl (Best. Names. Ever! (they were brother and sister)) On the Mothers Day before we left for Korea (2009-ish) Baby Boy and Baby Girl wrote my mom a lovely Mothers Day card thanking her for taking them in. (My mom hadn't agreed yet) Fast forward 4 years they are still live with my parents.<br />
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4 cats, 0 grand babies.... <br />
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There are a thousand stories that I could tell about my mom. I love you mom. Thank you for always supporting me, loving me and being someone I can always count on. Happy Birthday Mama! -Joe<br />
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<br />From Stephanie:<br />
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Mother in laws are notorious for being a pain in the neck. Not mine. My mother in law is one of my best friends. I can without hesitation say that Debbie is my friend. But she is also so much more than that.<br />
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She is a mother to me. She takes care of my when I am sad and sick. She has been my shopping buddy and helped me pick out outfits for weddings and new school clothes. We are workout buddies and she never lets me off the hook or slack during a workouts. (seriously one time we were doing P90X together (she bought it) and she was like, "come on Stephanie, you can do more triceps dips than that, if I can do 15, you should be doing 20!) (I am not exaggerating, that happened, in her living room!) She is an inspiration when it comes to being an educator. (She is the most level headed teacher I know, She is smart, honest and by the books. She gives the best student and administrator advice) She is a role model; showing me how to handle everyday life, marriage and a career. She (on occasion) is my therapist. She is great at listening. Even when I want to talk about Joe. She listens without pushing her opinions onto me. She lets me be me and loves me anyway. She has always been supportive of Joe and I and all of our decisions, the smart ones and the not so smart ones. She encourages us to chase our dreams and check things off of our bucket lists. All the while living her life the same way she encourages us to. Chasing her dreams and checking things off of her bucket list(she even lets us tag along sometimes). She runs and exercises everyday! She lesson plans new and exciting activities for her students. She has embraced her husbands hobbies and supports him at work. I couldn't have picked a better mother in law! <br />
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This was at the 2010 Portland half marathon. Together the three of us have run 3 or 4 half marathons, a handful of 5k fun runs (Thanksgiving/4th of July-ish runs) 2-3 10 K runs. And that's just together. On her own this woman has done dozens of races, several different types, lengths and for a all kinds of different causes. She even won her age division in the last 4-5 races she was a part of! <br />
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Win or lose, or lose she is a die hard Cubs fan. Talk about dedication! She is not a fare weather fan. <br />
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<br />StephanieLynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03347042235200025619noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8665063242313456807.post-594863117581418852013-02-17T05:26:00.000-08:002013-02-17T05:26:21.561-08:00Banana Oatmeal PancakesRemember a while ago when I was searching for the <a href="http://37n127e-js.blogspot.kr/2012/07/killer-banana-bread.html" target="_blank">best banana bread recipe </a>in the world? Well last weekend I made the best banana oatmeal pancakes in the world. They were delicious. Almost like banana bread pancakes. Maybe a little healthier but I added peanut butter and syrup and I think that <strike>kinda</strike> takes from the healthy oatmeal/egg white/banana aspect of these pancakes. <br />
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I searched online for a good banana oatmeal recipe and couldn't find anything that matched what I had in the house. I didn't want to make a trip to the store so I combined a bunch of different recipes. <br />
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Most, if not all of the recipes I read called for you to put your oatmeal in a blender or food processor. Although someday I would love to try that, I don't have a blender or food processor. So I decided to just go for it and put my oats in whole.<br />
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3 bananas (they had been frozen, I let them defrost then smashed them with a fork)<br />
3 egg whites whipped with a fork until fluffy<br />
1 cup milk <br />
1 tsp vanilla extract (this was all I had left in the bottle, might not have even been that much)<br />
2 big pinches of salt<br />
2 tsp baking powder<br />
1 1/4 cup Oat Meal <br />
1 1/4-1 1/2 cup flower ( I added a little more later because my batter looked a little too runny)<br />
1 handful of chopped walnuts <br />
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Makes about a dozen small pancaked.<br />
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Like most recipes I decided to put all the wet ingredients together in one bowl and all the dry ingredients in another. Then combine them together. I smashed my bananas until they were all liquid-y. I like chunks of banana in my banana bread but I thought for pancakes my bananas should be very liquefied. I also fluffed my egg whites quite a bit. I think really fluffy egg whites make for some really fluffy pancakes. Because I wasn't able to put my oatmeal in a food processor and I didn't know how that would affect the density of my pancakes. I wanted to make sure I could get some fluff with my egg whites. (spoiler alert, it worked!)<br />
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After I combined my wet and dry ingredients the batter just looked a little too wet. I think that if I process the oatmeal in the future it would soak up more of the wet ingredients. Just to be safe I decided to sprinkle in a little flour. I was much more confident with the consistency after the added flour. <br />
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Just like regular pancakes, plop some batter on a hot pan, wait until the edges get all bubbly, then flip.<br />
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These turned out like fluffy banana bread pancakes. They were delicious. I put a little peanut butter and syrup on mine. But they are definitely good enough to eat "naked". And they didn't taste "healthy" (I only say this because the recipes I read online claim that oatmeal pancakes are healthy. I have no idea what the nutritional facts would be on these little suckers) and the larger oats from the oatmeal didn't get in the way of the consistency. <br />
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We bought more bananas this week and Joe has already asked when I will make these again. I want to try adding coconut flakes or some macadamia nuts next time. Yum! StephanieLynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03347042235200025619noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8665063242313456807.post-52747077654506127282013-01-22T06:49:00.000-08:002013-01-22T14:12:24.429-08:00Meet the Competition I must admit that I am a very lucky lady. I landed a handsome husband, but it seems as though I have some competition on my hands....<br />
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Meet Erin-Oh<br />
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This girl has a HUGE personality. She wears her crown to school almost everyday. She has every Disney princess dress on the market and she LOVES to sing and dance. Most days she makes up her own songs or she just sings any and all the words that come to her mind.<br />
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For example, we were working on identifying colors last week. In a voice closer to a scream than a sing, Erin chimes in with her own scene stealing song.<br />
"I love piiiiiiiiiiiiink! It is the best color in the wooooooorld! Peeeeeeeeink! It is SO much better than puuuuuurple. I loooooooouuuuuve PINK!!!" <br />
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I thought we were PBFF, Princess Best Friends Forever. Until today. Look at her, proud as punch with her drawing. <br />
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She was in class with Joe and they were all finished up with their work so Joe gave them each a piece of paper to draw on. She decided to draw a house. It's a little difficult to tell but on the top story of the house there are rooms where her mommy and daddy are in bed. Then on the middle section there are some brothers and sisters and another "daddy" at the top of the stairs. (obviously he has used her long Rapunzel like hair to go from the bed to the...table?) </div>
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Yep, you guessed it. That is my (former) PBFF getting married to MY husband, Mr. Joe (obviously in this scenario he is a prince.)! What a husband stealer! She even drew them during the ring ceremony. Prince Mr. Joe is giving Princess Erin a big diamond ring (I claim zero responsibility for the encouragement of princess-ness or big ol' diamond rings.....)<br />
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I guess in class the discussion was this...<br />
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Erin- "Look at my house Mr. Joe"<br />
Joe-"Oh, so beautiful"<br />
Erin-"I know, look it's Princess Erin" (pointing to her in the ring ceremony)<br />
Joe-"Who is that next to her?"<br />
Erin- "The Prince."<br />
Joe- "Oh, who's the Prince?"<br />
Erin- "YOU, Mr. Joe!"<br />
Joe- "ohhh, What are we doing?"<br />
Erin- "Getting married"<br />
Joe- "But I'm married to Ms. Stephanie"<br />
Erin- "No, you will marry me!"<br />
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You know what they say; Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Let's just say I'll be keeping an eye on this little princess. <br />
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<br />StephanieLynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03347042235200025619noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8665063242313456807.post-4819287532451205902013-01-15T06:23:00.000-08:002013-01-15T06:23:16.961-08:00Instagram Love<br />
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I love <a href="http://instagram.com/" target="_blank">Instagram</a>! It is my favorite social media site. Here are a few of my favorite insta pics. And you can follow me @stephanierandall<br />
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A few observations: I might take too many pictures of my cute little dog. I miss Paris. And Hawaii. I work with some pretty cute little people. My husband is the cutest sleeper/puppy snuggler. StephanieLynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03347042235200025619noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8665063242313456807.post-68830928911486651132013-01-13T22:46:00.000-08:002013-01-13T22:46:12.077-08:00YogaJoe and I usually get to teach art and PE together on Fridays. Unfortunately in January and in July the class schedule changes for intensives (the kids all take an extra class because in the Korean elementary schools they are in winter or summer vacation) and we do not get to teach together on Fridays. Sad.<br />
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Last Friday, Joe has a short break and was able to help me out for most of art class. Where we made sensory balloons.<br />
We filled large balloons with flour and/or rice. The kids got to squish them and kneed them. It was a fun quick project.<br />
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But then he had a first grade class to teach and I was on my own for PE.<br />
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We only had about 30 minutes. We played a modified dodge-ball game, then when we had about 5 minutes left we decided to do a little "yoga".<br />
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Now, I use the term "yoga" very loosely. Basically we just do some light stretching and some modified yoga positions that the kids can all do. I name them silly things that the kids like or think are funny.<br />
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The kids are really into it and stay completely silent for "yoga". They understand that it is a relaxing, quiet activity to get us focused and calmed down.<br />
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I call this pose, "tall mountain".</div>
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"Angry Kitty Cat" </div>
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Stretching out our "angry kitty cat" into the "flat cat".</div>
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My flexibility or lack there of is demonstrated in this pose, the "seal". </div>
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Look at the little boy in the bottom left corner...hahaha. Stretch it out Tony! </div>
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Look at how flexible these little people are. </div>
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Big, strong "t" pose</div>
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I need to look up some new "yoga" positions, but until then these ones are keeping us busy. StephanieLynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03347042235200025619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8665063242313456807.post-89358026406506631162013-01-13T08:09:00.001-08:002013-01-13T08:09:26.731-08:00Beijing or Bust Part 3: The final post***So it's January 2013, we went to Beijing in July 2012. I'm only about 6 months behind...errr. But this is happening! The final blog post about our summer trip to Beijing<br />
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We chose to do all of our big sight seeing trips through a tour company, organized through our hotel. We all talked about the pros and cons of using a tour agency.<br />
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Cons:<br />
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<li>It might cost a bit more than going on our own</li>
<li>We would have to travel with strangers</li>
<li>Might be touristy</li>
<li>Less freedom to do/see what we wanted</li>
<li>We would be on a schedule </li>
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Pros<br />
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<li>Everything was done, all we would have to do is pay and show up</li>
<li>Communication to and from would be provided</li>
<li>Transportation to and from would be provided</li>
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We decided that we wanted an easy trip. None of us are into backpacking around hunting down hidden treasures. We all just wanted to see some of the big sights, enjoy each others company and have a stress free vacation.<br />
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I personally loved that all we had to do was pick what day trips we wanted to go on, pay, then show up the day of. No internet research, no transportation to figure out. They were easy tours. <br />
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We went on two trips with the tour guides.<br />
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1. Ming Tombs, Jade factory, Silk Factory and Great Wall<br />
2. Forbidden City, Summer Palace, Pearl Factory <br />
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On our own we walked around Tiananmen Square, outdoor food market (mystery meat on a stick), Pearl Market (knock off shopping) and an outdoor street market for shopping.<br />
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We fit in everything we wanted to see in our short trip.<br />
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Looking back on our pros and cons of using a tour group, it was the perfect choice for us. Our tours were small, 20 people on one and 5 on the other. The cost was very reasonable. I think they were all about $50 dollars a person. And we only ran into a few touristy spots. <br />
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The Great Wall was the sight that I wanted to see the most. In the tour we signed up for we started off with a quick tour of the Ming Tombs. At first I was disappointed because I thought this little pit stop would cut into our time hiking/walking the Great Wall, but I was pleasantly surprised. I really enjoyed this stop.<br />
The name "Ming Tomb" is very deceiving. We never actually saw any graves or tombs.<br />
The Ming Tomb that we toured was just a huge road that lead to the tombs of different Kings/Emperors. The road was used as a kind of road to the after life kinda thing. The road was lined with huge statues of warrior/animals that were put in place to protect the spiritual world for the dead Kings/Emperors. <br />
We went early in the day with our small group (maybe 20 people) so the crows were small and our tour guide spoke great English and was very enthusiastic.<br />
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Here is a little map of the Ming Tombs. You can see the start of the road with the huge gate, the road that we walked along up towards the mountain and several of the tombs at the base of the mountain. Our guide, I think his name was Peter, told us that the tombs and road were all designed with feng shui ideas and principals to keep bad spirits away. <br />
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This was our tour guide, Peter. You can tell how large the statues were in this picture. There was a matching statue on either side of the road.<br />
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It was amazing to see these statues in person. They are huge and full of detail. If I remember correctly, Peter told us that each individual statue started out as one big hung of rock. It was then carved and brought to this road and have been here since. Pretty amazing.<br />
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We had a stop at the jade factory. It was basically a huge jade shopping center. Joe and I each bought a small jade animal from our year on the Chinese calendar. Joe was born in 1982, the year of the dog and I was born in 1985, the year of the ox. Although we didn't mind walking through the "jade factory", it was just a huge tourist scam. Peter told us all about the heath benefits of jade while we were on the bus. Jade increases blood flow, improves circulation, memory, helps reduce arthritis aches and pains... blah, blah. It was interesting but I doubt half of his stories were true, or as true as he made them sound. Debbie ended up getting a jade bracelet, in 6 months she hasn't taken it off.....because she can't. Ha. I think half the reason she bought it was because after the sales girl put it on her, she couldn't get it off. First of all, there were 2 sales girls for every tourist. You couldn't make eye contact with a piece of jade (in any shape or size) without one of them running up to you, "hey lady try dis one." Then to get the correct size bracelet, they put a small plastic bag over your hand then slipped the bracelet over it and pulled the bag away. <br />
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Poor Debora got suckered into trying on a bracelet, the sales girl hit
pay dirt when she spotted Debbie. The bracelet was on and stuck in no
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Right above Joe's head in the above picture is where we started our wall walk. We took a ski lift like ride up to this section of the wall and walked until we couldn't. There were a ton of stairs and they were all different heights. At some points it was more like a soft incline, other times we were on our hands and knees climbing up stairs that were 2/3 feet high. <br />
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Nothing like a little Tsingtao, aka skunk beer, after a little stair climbing in 100% humidity. </div>
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Joe found a "hand carved" tile with M.J. on it. We talked the guy down to a little less than $10 dollars. It was worth. <br />
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The Great Wall was a once in a life time experience. I loved climbing the wall and sharing the experience with Joe and M and D. I will say I was disappointed that so much of the wall had been fixed up and re-built. It was touristy down below where the bus parked and a few Chinese had carried coolers of snacks and drinks up the wall (that's where Joe and Mike got the tasty beer).<br />
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That was the end of our first tour. We took the bus to a silk factory, but we were all a bit wiser and didn't get suckered into buying anything.<br />
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That night we had the best roasted duck. Beijing roast duck was on our "to-do" list from the start. We have BBQ duck in Korea all the time and it is one of our favorite dinners. The Beijing roasted duck was delicious. It was served with a plum sauce and rice wraps. We went back another night for dinner, it was THAT good!<br />
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We also tried this Chinese liquor. I think we decided to call it Dragon Fire or Liquid Dragon. It's hard to tell in this picture but its a tiny little bottle. (Less than 3 ounces, I know because we packed some back with us) You don't very much and to be honest I don't know how much you could drink. It was like liquid fire. It burned. But after a thimble full I had a buzz.<br />
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Tour number 2: Forbidden City, Summer Palace, Pearl Factory<br />
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This tour was like the other. We signed up a day or two before then all we had to do was show up in the lobby.<br />
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It was really rainy this day. We all bought a poncho and we were off. Our tour guide was Jenny. Her English was perfect and she was really laid back.<br />
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I thought there were a million people everywhere we went and it was raining. I couldn't imagine what these places would be like on a nice day. Oh and the pushing. Even with smaller crowds, there was pushing and shoving at every line, gate or glass case display. barf.<br />
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Here are some pictures from our day.<br />
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This tour was just the 4 Randall's and this big black guy from Washington DC. (I wish I remembered his name, I think it was Jerry) His wife was here on business and he traveled with her to see some of the sights. He was a really nice guy but the poor man was being harassed by the Chinese tourists. They would run in front of him to take his picture or stand near him and have a picture taken with him in the background.<br />
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On our way back to the hotel we had a stop at the pearl factory. Another tourist trap, but wow! These pearls were beautiful and it was kinda educational.<br />
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As a suvenier everyone in the tour got to take one of those little pearls home. We got 2, maybe someday I'll have earrings made. <br />
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The night market was at the top of Mike's to-do list. He found
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surprisingly easy for us to find. And OH MY GOSH! No video can ever
prepare you for this night market. The smells. Most of Beijing smelled.
The run of the mill sewer smells and body odor. This market was foul. It
was like a hot garbage pile. Around every corner a new smell emerged.
Ughh.<br />
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Starfish? Really? I can only imagine them being chewy and way too rough. Or how about a grub/beetle/silk worm or a handful of scorpions? Why on earth would anyway eat any of this by choice? I honestly would have to be near death. <br />
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M and D found a few treats to try. Joe and I played it safe with some deep fried mango.<br />
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Overall Beijing was a great trip. Would I go back, no. But I am SO glad we went. I can't imagine another time in my life that I will be able to travel to China with my family. We got to see some amazing sights and we made some great memories.<br />
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Peak and Pit from the trip:<br />
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Peak:<br />
Traveling with my family: I love my family and I love traveling with them. I LOVE that M and D came all this way to see us and travel with us. I love that Joe and I get to travel.<br />
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The Great Wall: It wasn't what I expected but it was amazing. It's hard to even understand, or wrap my brain around how people actually built this huge wall.<br />
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Haggling when shopping: I love fighting for the price I want to pay. It was fun in China because most of the little shop owners played into it and wanted banter back and forth. And I got some great prices.<br />
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Pit:<br />
Reconstruction: I was so disappointed to learn that so many of the sights we visited had been re-build or re-painted. (some of if for the 2008 Olympics) I liked the idea of seeing the original structures, no matter what condition they may be in. Knowing that they were not originals or that they had been changed made them loose the magic a little for me.<br />
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But that's it. We had a great trip! <br />
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<br />StephanieLynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03347042235200025619noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8665063242313456807.post-75668410067070918482013-01-09T05:13:00.000-08:002013-01-09T05:13:50.815-08:00So it's been a while...<br />
I know, I know. It's been forever since I have posted anything.<br />
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My cute mother in law posted this on FB the other day. <br />
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So now we all know exactly when the last post was. Isn't she cute? And so clever.<br />
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I really like to write about our little adventures. I am going to work really hard on getting all caught up with all of the great things we did and saw in 2012. StephanieLynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03347042235200025619noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8665063242313456807.post-57167484623673461252012-11-05T21:18:00.000-08:002012-11-05T21:18:00.085-08:00Seoul Wine TrainA few weekends ago Jenelle and I organized a ladies only wine train trip.<br />
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I would write about it but....<a href="http://bottsnet.blogspot.kr/" target="_blank">Jenelle</a> already did and she is a much better writer than I am.<br />
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So here is a link to her blog about our amazing weekend!<br />
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<a href="http://bottsnet.blogspot.kr/2012/10/seoul-wine-train.html" target="_blank">Soul Wine Train </a><br />
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I will add, I love these ladies! I only have a handful of girl friends and I feel so lucky to have these women in my life. I love them like sisters and we have the best time together!StephanieLynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03347042235200025619noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8665063242313456807.post-91878279755252460892012-11-05T05:18:00.001-08:002012-11-05T05:18:42.426-08:00Oregon City Pen PalsAll of my students have pen pals this term. I posted on Facebook in early September asking any and all of my teacher friends if they were interested in being pen pals with my students. I was SO happy when my friend Jacinta replied and said that she would LOVE to work it into her schedule.<br />
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Jacinta and I were inseparable in our last few years at WOU. Her and her son became like family. We did everything together. Those are some of my very favorite college memories.<br />
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Jacinta, Sebastian and I on my first trip to Jacinta's home town, Hood River, for her birthday. </div>
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July 2007</div>
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Jacinta and I wrote some curriculum together during our time student teaching at WOU. </div>
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We were selected to present our work on campus. May 2008</div>
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Jacinta and I at her wedding. August 2011</div>
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I am SO excited to be able to be pen pals with her and her class. It is a fun way to share our classroom lives and keep in touch. I sent her class the first set of pen pal letters in early October.<br />
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My students were super excited about having a new "friend" in the United States. They love the unique names and that we have to wait for the mail man. Everything about pen pals is exciting to a first grader.<br />
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Well something fun and unexpected happened today.<br />
Our pen pal letters from Jacinta's class came! yay!<br />
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How cute is she? Seriously! Jacinta was SO thoughtful. She sent a cool Oregon photo guide so that I can show the kids where Joe and I live in the United States. She even noticed on Pinterest that I am slightly obsessed with the mustache craze and got me these fun mustache cookie cutters! But what truly made me tear up were the Reese's candy bars.<br />
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Jacinta and I were obsessed with Target in college. We would stalk the sale aisles and find fun teaching stuff or prizes for our students. Then one Easter we found that Target discounts all of the holiday themed Reese's bars the day after any holiday. We bought about a dozen bags of the Easter egg shaped Reese's bars. But here's the kicker, they were honestly like $0.38 cents a bag. Hahaha! We filled her freezer and ate on and gave away Easter candy for the rest of the year. To this day when I see a holiday shaped Reese's bar I think of Jacinta.<br />
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She also sent a cute hand written letter. The mail man came before lunch and it truly made my day! I opened a few letters to check them out. Her students did a great job. And she took all of their pictures and sent them in with the letters!<br />
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My first graders went nuts! The loved "meeting" their pen pals, and see their faces. Hubert wanted to have his picture taken with his new "friend". Of course I obliged. Then in true first grade fashion everyone else wanted a picture with their pen pal. <br />
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Amy (BIS) and Carter</div>
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Ashley (BIS) and Kiara</div>
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Hubert (BIS) and Jacqueline</div>
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Kelly (BIS) and Katie</div>
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Ben (BIS) and Alexandra</div>
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Woods (BIS) and Joaquin</div>
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This is just a few of the kids with their pen pals. All of my classes are between 4-9 students. So I have several of my classes paired up with Jacinta's class. Throughout the week as I see students I will give them their letters and have them write back.</div>
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I can't even describe how excited my students were. This is such a fun project. I am so thankful that I get to share it with Jacinta. </div>
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StephanieLynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03347042235200025619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8665063242313456807.post-42279878139539199822012-11-05T01:08:00.000-08:002012-11-05T05:34:12.710-08:00A Walk in the Park<br />
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***I have a ton of catching up to do on this ol blog......but the thing is life keeps happening and my list of "to blog about" keeps growing. So I figured I might as well blog about something even if it is not at the top of my "to-do" list.<br />
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Work has been a drag. Being a teacher can really suck sometimes. The work load lately has been heavy. It's the end of a term for our older elementary students. Which means reviewing all of this terms material, making review worksheets, term test, then my least favorite...report cards! Ahgg. I HATE writing them. I won't go into it but they are more complicated then back home, its not a fill in the bubble, click a comment to add. Every single student gets a personalized comment that is no less than a paragraph long for each subject, from each teacher. It it a miserable task for me. Anyway....then at the end of this month it's term test for the first graders too. And to add to the fun this month....drum roll please....we got four new students in pre-k! They are only Korean age 5. Which means in North American age they are between 2- 4 years old, depending on their birthday. I haven't seen their paper work yet, but I imagine one is 3 and others are 4. We build a whole new class for these little darlings.<br />
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So... Joe and I decided to take the kindergartners for a mini field trip. Getting out of the building after a long week was perfect. We have had a beautiful fall so far but it will be getting cold really soon. Winters are long in Korea and we knew it would be the last time we would be able to get outside with the kids until next spring. The weather was perfect. Cool, crisp air, sunny and dry. It was a picture perfect fall day. There is a great little park near the school that has a pond full of
fish and the path to the park is lined with trees with the leaves changing colors. We had about 90 minutes to get to the park and back. Not an easy task with 20 small children, but do-able. We set out walking, then moved to speed walking, then when I noticed we might not make it back in time for the kids to catch the bus, we ran. <br />
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It's hard to see in this picture but Joe is carrying/running with Matthew. Matthew is by far the heaviest Kindergartner we have. He just could not keep up with the others, so Joe scooped him up and ran with him. Matthew told the other kids he was flying. The next day Joe was sore. </div>
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I packed a small bag of Eddie's dry dog food so we could feed the fish. We were lucky enough to have some ducks come by and we got to feed them too. The kids LOVED it. <br />
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Jayden got something stuck in his shoe. He stopped and refused to move until the issue was resolved. Of course that meant it was the perfect time for a picture according the Vicki, our photographer for the day. I swear nothing happens at BIS without a camera within reach. Joe and I didn't even think any of the Korean staff would go with us. Unfortunately as soon as we loaded up into the elevator, Vicki squeezed it. She doesn't really speak English, all she said was, "For picture", then held up the camera.<br />
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We all had a great time. We ran and played. I had the kids collect leaves for a future art project. I think the pictures speak for themselves.StephanieLynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03347042235200025619noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8665063242313456807.post-78086750381792933312012-10-18T07:20:00.001-07:002012-10-18T07:39:01.505-07:00Bring Your Mother to Work Day ***I found some great pictures on my work computer from when Debbie came to work with us so I am taking a break from my Beijing posts to share them.***<span id="goog_974461683"></span><span id="goog_974461684"></span><br />
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We convinced Mom a few different times to come to work with us and help us teach.<br />
It was REALLY fun to have her in class. The kids loved it, but I think Joe and I enjoyed it the most.<br />
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was something really special about sharing our students and our daily
teaching life with her. Teaching in front of her and watching her teach.
It was definitely one of the highlights of their trip for me.<br />
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For the kindergartners I had found a cute craft to go along with the Eric Carle book, The Grouchy Ladybug. I thought it would be the perfect activity for Debbie to do with the kids.<br />
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A few days before Debbie was planning on coming to work with us I had all of the kids make a grouchy face and I took their pictures.<br />
We would later use those grouchy pictures to make personalized grouchy ladybugs.<br />
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When Debbie came to school with us it was really cute to see all of the kids respond to her so well. She read them the story and talked to them about what makes them grouchy. <br />
It was fun to be the "student" and watch her teach. After we were finished in the gym we moved over to one of the kinder classrooms and began to assemble our grouchy ladybugs. All of us had to decide what made us grouchy.<br />
Some of my favorites are;<br />
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Steve: I am grouchy when......the Samsung baseball team loose.<br />
Claire: I am grouchy when.....Torie my dog will not play with me. <br />
Clara: I am grouchy when......my grandmother doesn't know what I am saying.<br />
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There were a few "when the TV is broken" and "so and so won't play with me"<br />
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Joe wrote; I am grouchy when the Oregon Ducks don't win.<br />
Debbie wrote: I am grouchy when I must leave my kids and go back to the United States.<br />
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At the time of this little project we were having a heat wave and in true Randall luck, our air conditioning broke. We had 4 fans running 24/7 and it was still 90 degrees with 80% humidity in our little apartment. It was miserable.<br />
I wrote: I am grouchy when it is too hot in my home and I can's sleep.<br />
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(Our apartment is provided by our school. I had brought over our vice principal to show her that the air conditioning was truly broken (she was convinced that I simply didn't understand how to turn the unit on properly). When I brought her over it was 87 degrees in our apartment and the AC was running full blast. She was standing in the middle of our apartment, with beads of sweat dripping down her temples, and she said to me; "See, the air conditioning is working. This is right." <br />
The next day I spoke to our principal, there may or may not have been tears, but we got a new AC unit installed the next weekend. )<br />
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Anyway, the grouchy ladybugs turned out SO cute! <br />
I found about a million cute pictures and couldn't decide which I wanted to put up, so I made a slide show so that I could have them all!<br />
Click play and enjoy. <br />
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Debbie also sat in on one of Joe's kinder classes and took these cute pictures. I love watching Joe with the youngest students. They adore him and he is SO cute sitting in the little chairs with them. <br />
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We put Debbie to work in a writing class Joe and I were teaching together. I love the pictures of her working with the little boy. They both look like they are really concentrating. <br />
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The younger kids LOVED the special attention from Mr. Joe's mom.<br />
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She must have had a good time because she come back again to teach the older kids the next day. Joe and I some how got ourselves wrangled into teaching a CNN/Speech/Debate class. We find articles/videos, share them with the kids, then we talk about it and share our opinions. Sometimes it is really fun and the kids (ages 12-14) participate and are all getting along and have manageable hormone levels. But most of the time they are annoying, pubescent middle schoolers that require way too much patience. (secretly I really do enjoy these little monsters but I will never admit it to them) <br />
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I love how serious Debbie looks on one picture, then in the next I am sitting on a desk and Joe looks zoned out on the computer. <br />
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We loved "bring your mom to work day". I can't wait until we all live closer and she can come to work with us more often. <br />
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<br />StephanieLynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03347042235200025619noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8665063242313456807.post-89067903560056834562012-10-16T18:25:00.001-07:002012-10-17T18:43:04.364-07:00Beijing or Bust Part 2**I was supposed to go to the gym this morning, I got up and dressed, shoes on, I even went down stairs, but well, it's raining. While my motivated husband has no problem walking in the rain, I prefer to stay dry. No gym for me. I figured I better use my time wisely and finish these posts about Beijing.<br />
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**A ton of the good pictures we took in Beijing are on our cameras memory chip. Unfortunately the little chip doesn't fit into my computers slot, and we lost the usb wire thingy to down load from the camera to the computer. So until I get those pictures off of the memory chip, we have IPhone photos.<br />
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After our eventful plane ride and checking out our "fancy" hotel, the Randall's took to the streets. Mike had done his research and was pretty familiar with the streets and where a few sights were close to our hotel. The first day lead us to Tiananmen Square. It was a quick walk from our hotel, maybe 20 minutes. We got lucky and had nice weather, lots of sun, a little hot, but no rain.<br />
Tiananmen square is massive. The history within the square is shocking. What else is there to say?<br />
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We had been warned about large crowds and pushy shop workers and sales men. Lucky for us the square was relatively empty and we only ran into one pushy salesmen. He was a good salesmen, we ended up taking his offer of a 1 dollar tour of one of the gates. <br />
We wondered around the large gate, there were pictures and a timeline of the square and gates/squares history. Not surprisingly, some of the real events that make Tiananmen Square "famous", were not on the timeline. Hum....We later found out that a lot of the sights we visited practices "selective history". Leaving out some of the not so glamorous historical events in China's history. <br />
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It's hard to tell in these pictures, but it is massive. The gates are huge. Even the cement square is huge. Walking through you can't help but feel small. The construction and engineering is impressive. Even if the history behind all of it is less than impressive, the sheer magnitude of the structures is. </div>
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After our little tour we wondered around and some how managed to stumble upon a street market. </div>
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I <u>LOVE</u> to haggle with street vendors. Living in Korea we have had a few experiences with street vendors and negotiating a fair price. Beijing was another world of price negotiation. I should also add that I have zero comprehension of exchange rates. I always get confused by how much foreign money is really worth in comparison to the USD. But from what I remember....15 Chinese RMB was about 2 US dollars. (I think...but I still really don't know)</div>
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I have this rule about shopping in street markets; Don't get attached to anything. If you like something and can't walk about from it, just get it. Ask how much it is, haggle a bit, then get it. You don't want to walk away wishing you had just paid for it.</div>
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But if you just like something then haggle away. I would ask how much something was, give them the lowest possible price I thought they would be willing to sell it for, then walk away. I figured if they really want a sale then they will come back at me with a price close to mine. If not then, oh well. No harm in asking. </div>
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This strategy worked for me EVERY time. I even haggled a few times for Joe and Debbie. I like to put on a good show and pretend like a really the item, and act all sad when they give me a price that is too high, then walk away. Hook, line and sinker! It gets them every time. </div>
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I found all of these cute baby clothes. I am a sucker for clothes for my (very far off) future children. I love the idea of them wearing clothes from the places Joe and I have visited. Little mementos that tell them that we have been thinking about them and wanting them way before they were ever brought into our lives. Explaining to them that the dress they are wearing or the shoes on their feet are from our travels way before they were born. Hopefully, instilling the travel bug early on. Oh, the idea of it makes me smile.</div>
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How cute are these little dragon shoes? </div>
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One lady called me crazy. But she gave in and sold me the white silk pajamas for a dollar. </div>
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I bought a few things from her. She even asked me if I was a Chinese girl, because I want Chinese price not American price. She was a good sport.</div>
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But when you think about it, 15 RMB for a little pajama set sounds like a TON. It was only when I walked away and Mike asked me how much I got them for that I realized that it was SO cheep. My mind just doesn't grasp the idea that different kinds of money are worth different amounts. Oh well. </div>
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We went back to this little market a few times. They had everything! We all walked away with a treasure or two. <br />
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Our first day was busy but good. We landed in Beijing at about 10am and were out and exploring before lunch. More to come in part 3. StephanieLynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03347042235200025619noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8665063242313456807.post-24264228402816639782012-10-06T17:56:00.000-07:002012-10-06T17:56:13.863-07:00Paris We just got back from Paris.<br />
We ate, walked, people watched, when sight seeing.<br />
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It was a dream come true for me. Joe liked it too.<br />
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I loved every minute of this trip and would go back in a heart beat. StephanieLynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03347042235200025619noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8665063242313456807.post-90811217187692475832012-10-06T17:53:00.002-07:002012-10-06T17:54:25.431-07:00365+ days in KoreaOne year in Korea down.<br />
We signed a contract for another 11 months.<br />
Looks like we'll leave Korea Aug. 24, 2013<br />
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As a "thank you" we got an extra 2 days off (connected to a 3 day holiday).<br />
We took advantage of our week off and went to Paris.<br />
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This last year has been great. I can only imagine what another year will bring us.<br />
Hopefully I write more, hopefully Joe will write. StephanieLynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03347042235200025619noreply@blogger.com1