안녕하세요

안녕하세요 (Hello in korean)

You'll never guess what I have been up to ;)

Banana is off to a 4 day camp for school so the Letters to my son will take a break but I will catch up on the other things I have missed while I wait for his return.

If you didn't guess yet I have been up to learning Korean (yeah!!!!).  I'm pretty excited about this.  I had my first lesson last week.

It is a pretty exciting story how this all came about.  I have been wanting to learn as much Korean as possible since I plan to stay in Seoul for the duration of the adoption (about 4-6 weeks) instead of taking two trips and also so I can have a little understanding of the words my toddler will say upon his coming home.

I gave the samples of Rosetta Stone a try and was not liking it.  I also feel like I need the pressure of a teacher coming back each week for me to actually do my studying.   So with John back I ask him to visit our laundry lady (who is Korean) and ask her if she knew anyone in her church who gave lessons.  She knew a girl who did give lessons but she was very expensive and could only come on a Saturday and as all you mom's out there know Saturday's with kids and sports are super busy.  John told her I could not do Saturdays and she took him to meet another lady who was a stay at home mom who was happy to come to my house each week for the lessons.

To top it off she refused to take any money.  She said she was happy to come as she is home all week alone and this gives her something to do and also an outing and play date for her daughter because she is able to play with my daycare littles.

SO EXCITING isn't it!!!!

What is even more exciting is I sat and learned the basic Korean alphabet and over the weekend when John was giving me words I could spell them using the Hangul symbols.

I would love to write more but I have to get back to my studies ;)