Strangers

Back home, you don't think too much about how many different colors of skin, different styles, and different languages are spoken every day around you. Really there are so many different kinds of people....different in all different ways...

Here, we've found that a person of a different background is quite a spectical. Since being here, we have had people stop in their tracks to stare at us, take pictures of us, and kids scared off by us. Most of the time, it is not done in a demeaning manor....just out of curiosity.

A few months ago, we went on a field trip with our Hapkido gym. There were about 100 hapkido kidos who went on the trip, and boy howdy were we the center of attention! Especially Mitch. We had a group of 10 or so kids at our heals most of the day...reciting every English word they could possibly think of, taking pictures of us, getting our autographs, giving us snacks, and just standing by us to look cool. :) It was pretty funny....and fun!

Here we are sitting on a bench with our new friends. As we sat on this bench (probably for about 20 minutes) 3 different groups of kids came and sat across from us to talk to us or just look at us if they didn't know English. It was like they had a rotating schedule...."Okay! Your 7 minutes is up! Now it's our turn to sit by the foreigners!"






At the end of the day, we were asked to be in every single hapkido group picture! Even with the kids who don't go do our gym! HaHa! What a fun day....


In addition: It's funny that we made this post today because later this afternoon, we went to play frisbee at a nearby park, and we saw the main kid who was obsessed with Mitch! We had stopped in to get some ice cream at a convenient store, and the kid was there too. He got so excited. He offered to buy Mitch's ice cream, and he stood by us the entire time we were looking at the ice cream selections, making several suggestions. Ha! Ha! What a funny kid..