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The visitor…!

Posted by Rachel on May 05 2008

We all stayed up pretty late just playing music and looking at pictures on the computer with Hwan. We talked a bit about Korea and American culture, too.

The next day I made sweedish pancakes for breakfast so we all sat at the table and ate (which we only do sporadically) and then we went outside for a bit and decided to ride bikes to the neighbors house ( the kids I babysit )
I had told them before that he was coming and I promised to bring him by and also they wanted him to see their new pig, hehe, (which, he really wanted to see a pig.) So when we got there they were waiting for us and so was the pig! hehe. They were excited to meet him and their mom came to say hello as well.
So we chatted a bit and he pet the pig (its just a little pig right now) and that was fun. Then their mom invited us to go to the ranch just up the road from us to ride horses in a couple of hours So we accepted and went to the park first before going home.

It was really nice weather most of the time he was here. We swung on the swings at the park and talked a bit then we headed home and got there barely in time to leave again~ hehe. So we hopped in with the neighbors and drove down the road (Me, Benjamin and Hwan.) We just rode around in the corral but it was still fun.
I led Hwan and he led me at first, hehe. The horses were good! And while we were there, a bus load of kindergarten kids came to ride the little pony and a horse.
Hwan led a bunch of them around on a horse (they took turns) I wish I’d brought my camera! It was cute ^^
Later that day we had baked potatoes for dinner and Hwan helped me make chocolate chip cookies so we could bring them to figio (a creation seminar we go to once a month or so.)
So we headed out at 6:30 (Me, Hwan, Benjamin, Dad and Mary) and when we got there we saw several people we knew.
The talk was about stem cell research and abortion. Very mind opening message. He exposed a lot of truthful facts but yet no fingers were pointed, just pointed at truth. I really got a lot from it!
So afterwards I introduced him to all my/our friends~ Hehe, maybe a bit overwhelming (sorry, Hwan!) But they were all glad to meet him and stuff.
The pastor talked with him for a while and he decided to become a christian It was really cool~ The highlight of the week ^^

The cookies were gone before we got any (but we were glad we’d already had one before leaving home, hehe :P.) So we stayed a little while and chatted then we went home.
Josh and Rebecca came over after we got home so we visited with them a while and then went to bed.
The next day we went on another bike ride to the park and went to both parks. We had a nice chat for a while and then headed home. It was a bit windy but other than that, a nice day for it.
Then we played some board games with Benjamin and Hwan won scrabble even though he’d never played before, :P. It was funny.
That night we went to Anna and Caleb’s for dinner and to play music/fish/canoe and just hangout. That was fun. Especially the canoing (and dinner :P). They hadn’t met Hwan yet so they wanted him to come.
I would have taken more pictures but I didn’t know we had a camera, lol. Mom bought one at a yardsale that Saturday and it works good! So that’s how I got these other pictures.

On Sunday we went to church in Roswell (its a tiny town smaller than Parma, about 10 miles from here) so that was nice! And he met our friends there and afterwards we talked to the pastor a bit. It was kinda funny cause at first he thought we were going out or something, hehe. He knew a korean phrase so he told it to Hwan that was cool.

After we got home I got changed and started working on getting the BBQ stuff ready. Cathy Joe had come over the day before when we were playing scrabble so she met Hwan and we invited her to come over for a BBQ the next day. So that’s how we decided on a BBQ
Anna came over and helped us with the cooking and we ate around 2:00. The phillips called a little before 2 so we invited them to come for lunch, too~ So we had a nice little group.
Later we decided to go play baseball at the school with Eric (phillips) so we hitched a ride with him (me, Hwan and Benjamin) which was a little crowded in his 1950′ish truck (not sure exactly) but it was funny, hehe.
It was fun playing except I found out how seriously bad I am at hitting the ball, lol. It was kinda funny, really, but I would have liked to hit it at least once…!

Hwan hit some really good and far ones especially later on when everyone else came. I don’t know if he knew what to make of Caleb…who was definetly in his crazy/wild/silly mood. Hwan says he’s a wild man and so is Josh! They’re not exactly typical, lol, that’s for sure.
So anyways. That night, me Benjamin and Hwan played a bunch of games ( :D) and then the next day we played more and while I made dinner, Hwan washed the dishes. We decided to go with Benjamin to sing at nursing homes. So I made some cookies barely in time before they picked us up. We had fun singing and stuff. And he got to meet the bays and another one of my friends.
When we got home dinner was ready so we ate and then played some more scrabble. We were playing it funny but we didn’t know until dad came by and told us, hehe. But we were getting pretty good scores the way we were playing! We could make words backwords and sideways etc.
Then we played up-words, which is similar to scrabble (I guess we all really liked scrabble :P) Pretty much every night we played scrabble and another different game. Once, we played Settlers of Catan and Hwan won but he’d never played before…but then again, it was kind of confusing weather Benjamin or Hwan really won, lol. They both had 10 points in the end.
Then we played monopoly and I almost won but I landed on Hwan’s most expensive hotel…so yeah he won that too.
Benjamin was teaching Hwan how to play Chess cause he’d never played it before (but they do have something similar in Korea) so he won that too, lol.
He taught us some funny hand games too, so we played those after all the others. We played a lot of things while he was here, hehe.
On Wednesday we took Hwan to see grandma and grandpa’s house and just to drive around the countryside
We watched “yours mine and ours” and I made some tea for us (Me, Mary, Mom and Hwan.) He hadn’t seen it, so it was pretty funny I always laugh at that movie, hehe.
Hwan really liked the house, too. It is really nice! They just got it built but they’re back in CA for now.
On thursday Anna and Caleb came over in the morning to invite Hwan to go with Caleb horse riding and some horse jobs Caleb was doing and Anna invited me to go shopping with her. So I woke Hwan up and he got ready and we all left around the same time.
We were a little worried about Hwan riding with Caleb, so we called a couple of times to check on them (as Hwan said, Caleb’s a wild man, hehe.)
We had a lot of fun shopping and it just so happened that day was dollar day at Dutch Bro’s So we got like 3 or 4 smoothies and 3 or 4 mocha’s and I got a breve’. They gave me a large instead of medium so I waited to drink it until later that night. I was up late
When we got home Caleb and Hwan were there too so we all drank our coffee’s and stuff and a little later they all decided to work on the yard.
Me and Hwan made dinner but we set it aside and he went to work on the yard, too. They got a lot done! I helped a little but wasn’t feeling to great and Hwan told me not to work,
After they were done we had dinner, then Caleb and Anna went home. We sat outside next to the huge stump fire and sang a little.
Benjamin took these pics


Then we (me, Benjamin and Hwan) stayed up pretty late playing a slapping game Hwan taught us, hehe. It was funny.

The next morning we went for a walk and then Mary took me and Hwan to the trailer park for their yardsale day. We drove the truck so Hwan rode in the back part of the way.
Me and Mary found some interesting books for 10 cents each and Hwan found a playstation for 45$. Pretty good deal! He said he needed it, hehe.
On our way home we met up with Benjamin. He was just out bike riding so he threw his bike in the back and came with us.
We got home and it was almost time to leave for the airport. I wanted to give Hwan a picture of me when I was little which he liked so I put in in a book and gave it to him. Later when he had arrived in Indiana, he told me how he wanted to have the picture so I told him where it was, hehe. Surprise!
So we brang him to the airport and said goodbye~
We went to the college greenbelt and walked across the bridge. It was hard to say goodbye.
Hwan, before we left: