Sojung goes to Washington

Here is the link to the school Sojung attends. http://www.nvchristianacademy.org/ It is also where I work. She has enrolled in US History, English, Chemistry, Geometry, Algebra II, Bible, and Art.

Tonight she is spending the night at her PIE (Pacific Intercultural Exchange) rep's house. There will be several other exchange students staying the night. Tomorrow they are getting up early and going into Washington DC. The will tour the White House http://www.whitehouse.gov/, the United States Capitol http://www.aoc.gov/ and the Pentagon http://pentagon.afis.osd.mil/. If they have time and the weather permits they will visit Arlington Cemetery. We plan to take her to visit the monuments when the weather is warmer. Marcus gives the best night tour of the monuments.

This week has been exam week at school so the high school only had a half day of school all week. Sojung has been spending the afternoon with me in Kindergarten. The kids LOVE her! Nobody is accepting as five year olds. They had a lot of questions for her and she taught them to say "hello" and count 1-5 in Korean. They were surprised to find out that several words in Korean are the same in English (pizza, chicken). Sojung must have made quite an impression on my students because at the end of the day yesterday one little girl announced, "When I grow up I want to be Korean!" Too cute!

Sojung promised to take lots of pictures and we will post them when time permits.

Saturday will be another full day. Marcus and I will be going with Sojung and the other exchange students to Jamestown http://www.jamestown2007.org/ and Yorktown http://www.yorkcounty.gov/tourism/ for the day. It is 2 1/2 hours from our house and neither Marcus or I have been there before. We are really looking forward to it.