Know how you know you love what you are doing? One sign: You don’t stop doing it simply because it is your birthday!
I celebrated my birthday by holding three different orientation sessions. So many wonderful things from today:
Refugees:
* A refugee calling me a “superman for North Korean refugees.”
* Celebrating my birthday with the refugees entering our project.
* Three of the refugees who were Grace’s students the last few weeks joining the program clearly more confident than they were a few weeks ago.
* The refugees were curious about me, they wanted to know why I do what I do. The same with the last group of tutors at the last orientation.
* One refugee mentioned that it is amazing what we do without real infrastructure. We have held our orientations and matching sessions at TOZ, Mulmangcho, Freedom Factory, the Bitcoin Center.
Tutors
* Tutors coming from around the country to join TNKR, including one teacher who wants to fly in from Jeju twice a month to tutor. We definitely need a gofundme account for her…
* We had only two orientations scheduled, but three of the tutors coming from far away, and unfamiliar with Seoul, arrived really late. So Eunkoo Lee and I met them from 7 pm for a third unexpected orientation.
* Special thanks to Christian Kim and Sareena Tanlines for talking us up to TaLK teachers. We have so many outstanding young people signing up to join TNKR.
Website:
* Orlandy Godines and Worth Stokes teaming up to completely revamp the TNKR website.
Fundraising
* An unexpected $100 donation from one of the refugees in the project.
* An unexpected donation from a Bitcoin user.
Birthday messages
* And I checked, I have 195 birthday messages on my Facebook timelines. I have more than 2,900 Facebook friends, so I guess I need to delete the other 2,700 who did not post a message. π* Years ago, I had to work on my birthday. I remember grumbling all day. But this September 5. I loved it.
I celebrated my birthday by holding three different orientation sessions. So many wonderful things from today:
Refugees:
* A refugee calling me a “superman for North Korean refugees.”
* Celebrating my birthday with the refugees entering our project.
* Three of the refugees who were Grace’s students the last few weeks joining the program clearly more confident than they were a few weeks ago.
* The refugees were curious about me, they wanted to know why I do what I do. The same with the last group of tutors at the last orientation.
* One refugee mentioned that it is amazing what we do without real infrastructure. We have held our orientations and matching sessions at TOZ, Mulmangcho, Freedom Factory, the Bitcoin Center.
Tutors
* Tutors coming from around the country to join TNKR, including one teacher who wants to fly in from Jeju twice a month to tutor. We definitely need a gofundme account for her…
* We had only two orientations scheduled, but three of the tutors coming from far away, and unfamiliar with Seoul, arrived really late. So Eunkoo Lee and I met them from 7 pm for a third unexpected orientation.
* Special thanks to Christian Kim and Sareena Tanlines for talking us up to TaLK teachers. We have so many outstanding young people signing up to join TNKR.
Website:
* Orlandy Godines and Worth Stokes teaming up to completely revamp the TNKR website.
Fundraising
* An unexpected $100 donation from one of the refugees in the project.
* An unexpected donation from a Bitcoin user.
Birthday messages
* And I checked, I have 195 birthday messages on my Facebook timelines. I have more than 2,900 Facebook friends, so I guess I need to delete the other 2,700 who did not post a message. π* Years ago, I had to work on my birthday. I remember grumbling all day. But this September 5. I loved it.