Tech Woes have befallen me again

Good evening from Seoul

It is 11:00 pm and we have just returned home for the night. We left this morning at 7:40am. Yes those incrediblly prompt, orderly and near perfect people have us busy all the time. No free time as of yet. It has been very difficult to keep up on the blog. I took a Nytol 10 minutes ago so if I cut this off abruptly , it was just time. I have not slept straight through a night yet. So tonight that is my goal. I have Leevi on the floor and a double bed to myself. ( A sheer luxuary by Korean standards.

We had a traditional breakfast of fried fish with their heads still, pancakes with tuna and reen onions, pickled cucumbers, pickled cucumbers a little different form the others and pickled cucumbers a little differnt for the other two , this was served with rice and potatoe soup. After such a nutritious start to the day w e were given a gift by our host family. I told you they were amazing. We then headed off to the prining company where the opening ceremony was. This is now the meeting place each day. The owner of the printing company is a major sponsor of the Motherland tour. We then quickly hopped on a bus to a KOrean cooking class. We made two traditional courses which was our lunch. After lunch we headed to SWS (Social Welfare Society) to meet Leevi's foster parents.

Leevi was excited to meet them. The meeting was not a dissapointment. His foster mother has now retired as has her husband. The traveled for 2 hours on the subway. The arrived bearing a gift for him and he had some for them. As in Leevi style he was just buzzing to give the gift. He gave his foster mom an HBC fleece Olympic blanket and his foster dad an Olympic hat and t-shirt. They were thrilled with the hat for him as he is a real ball cap wearer. We toured the SWS building, visited all the babies . Some were able tohold them. We were in our visit for 1.5 hours. Leevi's gift was chips, cookies and books. About 5 minutes after opening his gift he wanted started to read his books we pretty much lost him. He was reading his Korean Folk Tales book so intently that it was difficult to engage him inconversation. It was so cute they really got to see his personality.

Foster mom asked questions about him and clearly rememberd him becoming ill just before he was to come to Canada. He woke up one moring very pale and his foster mom was very very concerned. Her husband was a taxi driver so he drove like a "crazy man" to get him to the hospital. She says this is etched in her mind as the most trying time of fostering Leevi. She remembered him as a very good boy. :)

We hopped back on the bus and headed backto the printing company. Once back there we were herded into a van ( Like a Nissan or something like that) that seated 11 people. The driving is not like China's but seatbelts were not mandatory. The van was so deceiving.

We were now off to a home of another homestay for a b-bq . This family hosted us and Lisa and Liam along with Willam and Alex (there homestay family). It was a great time. I have pictures of the food and will hopefully post them soon.

My tech issue is chargers. I plugged my converter in and was moving it around a bit as the connections are so wiggly. I am not the only one with this issue. As I wiggled it it sparked and made a huge pop noise and a plume of smoke waffed upward. I looked down at my hand and it was black as soot. Our Canadian guide is at the same homestay as we are and she was so shocked that she took a great picture of it. She was so happy it did not happen to her because she has the same issue but removed her charger before anything happened. Lisa had a simlar esperience on the first night she was not even near the charger and we heard it arch. Yikes.

We are trying to find chargers for 4 families as all are having issues with their converters. Stopped at a 24 hour super store with 4 Korean adults in pursuit of the convert to connect us to those in the world whom we so desperately miss communicating with. Not to mention Leevi's DS and my camera. MISSION FAILED!

So here I am again typing on an old relic ( but not complaining) Just thrilled to have access.
Sorry no pictures and believe me I have pictures.

Good night

ㅓ묻ㅅ & ㅣㄷㄷ퍄
Janet & Leevi

Simon and Lolah we miss you, actually Leevi being Leevi says " I don't miss them" He is having too much fun.