“Sang il chuk ha ham ni da!” Happy birthday!
Potluck
I celebrated my second birthday abroad, my first here in Korea, on Wednesday. I’m now 23 American age, still 24 Korean.
(A quick recap: In Korea, babies are 1 year old when they are born. They don’t start at zero like we do in the States. So that’s why foreigners are automatically a year older when they arrive here.)
I’ve had open classes all week with my kindergarten students, so their parents came to watch me teach. A bit neveracking, that’s for sure, but luckily they went really well and I was quite pleased actually. The 5-year-olds’ parents surprised me with 4 birthday cakes for the potluck! They sang “Happy birthday,” IN ENGLISH, and Mrs. Lee surprised me with some long pjs for the wintertime. 
Asaaa!
Pizza party TKD style
My 7-year-olds also got me a cake and we had a party in our homeroom. And later Tuesday night, I found out this was just the birthday that keeps on giving. My TKD friends got me wine and cake and Master bought us all pizza, so we had a pretty chill night together. They all sang in the dark and made me blow out candles, and Master gave me a couple cute TKD characters to hang from my cell phone. So very Korean… I love it.
My cousin, Kelly, showed up last night, so we’re headed into Seoul for the weekend. See you all soon. Hope the weekend goes well for us all!
TKD Master & I
Jaydon & I... before he left for a day of duty
2 Comments
October 23, 2009 at 2:39 pm
Wonderful, sounds like you had a great day!
October 26, 2009 at 6:33 pm
Happy “late” Birthday Kaley!!! It looks like you had a great day
Julie*