Thanks to KJ Chen, Cielo Yoon, Jeffrey Song, Yiying Han, Lolu Ayo, Cortney Grace, Agnes Choi and Michelle Mangeni for volunteering yesterday at Mulmangcho. It feels like we have reached a new period of development of this Sunday program. This all started in mid-2012 when Prof. Park Sun-Young asked me if I could teach English to the young children at the school who had the misfortune of being born in North Korea.
My answer was: "No."
Then I explained that I have no idea how to teach children, but that I could find other real teachers with the know-how and volunteers with the enthusiasm to do much better than I ever could.
Each week, I am amazed when so many people are willing to wake up so early on a Sunday morning to travel more than an hour outside of Seoul to volunteer at the school. For some, it ruins their Saturday nights--for others, it gives them an excuse ("I would go out and do exciting things tonight, but I will stay home (again) so I can wake up early.")
Special thanks to Cortney for taking the lead in adding more structure to the program and to Jeffrey for always giving her feedback to keep us focused on improving the program. They didn't post many photos at the Website this week.