Relinquishment and Resilience: Uncovering the Past

미선언니 (Mi Sun, my older sister), 4th 이모 (my mother’s younger sister), me. 2006.8.19
 
Last weekend, I went to 신림동 with 미선언니 and 보림 (친구, Borim) to visit one of my imos (이모=aunt on mother’s side). It was meaningful, because Borim was the first Korean friend I ever had. We met at Creighton University in [...]

Can you tell sarahkim from butter?

I know I’m late to the party (as usual) on this, but better late than never. Fun with the Advertising Slogan Generator.

Making sarahkim taste better.
Let’s face the music & sarahkim.
Turn loose the Outside In . . . And Back Again.
Ding Dong! Outside In . . . And Back Again calling!
You need an Outside [...]

Conference Wrap-Up, Pt. II

This is going to be brief, as I waited too long to finish my Conference wrap-up, and many of my impressions are not fresh anymore. However, I’ve been plugging away at compiling the information from the evaluation forms from the G.O.A.’L Conference, so I’ve at least been thinking about it daily. (Check out [...]

Conference Wrap-Up

First things first: about 100 new photos up on my Flickr site. (Looks like I need to add some more family photos . . . forgot to take pictures when I went to eat samgyetang with Mi Sun recently.) This post is going to be rambling and disorganized, just to let you know, [...]

Waiting

…for the G.O.A.’L Conference to officially begin. The dinner begins at 7:00 p.m., and I have a feeling most people won’t show up to register until 6:00 at the earliest. Also waiting for the Conference booklets to arrive. Hoping tomorrow’s Power Point presentation doesn’t wig out on me.
Next post will be [...]

Hot Sun–Yes!

First of all, let me direct you to Lee’s blog, which is authored by an Australian Korean Adoptee that I met at G.O.A.’L (and later KoRoot, where we were housemates for a week) recently. His blog has a much better documentation of typical Korean scenes as well as some nice pics of KoRoot and [...]