Exchange student trip to South Korea

In April, I chaperoned a trip to South Korea for my son's Middle School. It was a two week long exchange where we lived with families there. It was very different from our Adoption trips to China in two important ways.

1) We did not have the added stress of adopting a child. We could just be ourselves and enjoy everything about Korea.

2) We stayed with the families instead of in hotels. We did what they did, ate what they ate, etc.

We had a great time and learned a lot. It was interesting to see the number of similarities (and differences) between Korea and China. Korea is much more modernized than China, but has several of the same traditions. I got the feeling sometimes that I was looking at China in 20 years.

Here is a short video presentation that I made for the school board an the local rotary club.