Austin at the Orphanage
So I’m learning Korean. Middle-aged woman with early onset altzheimer’s attempting to learn a TOTALLY foreign tongue. Or IS IT??? I DID hear it for almost three years of my life and nine months in the womb.
Anyway, at the language program I signed up for I ran across one of the instructor’s blogs, where he volunteers at a Korean orphanage getting to know the children. I haven’t read the entire thing yet, but here is one post: More Background…and a video!
I appreciated the comments – I think if more people knew about adoption in Korean culture, westerners would not be so quick to rescue them. It is too simple a solution to a very complex problem.
Oh, and btw. THIS orphan is moving to Korea to live for a year or two. There’s a lot of us so-called orphans.
Orphan. The dictionary definition doesn’t begin to describe what it means.
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