June 26th
Today we visited the agency where I was from and reviewed my file! It was kind of emotional but meaningful because I learned a lot. I also met my social worker who was really nice and said I was and still am handsome, lovely, and energetic!
Love, Max
Sorry for the delayed posting. The past two days have been jammed back with activities. Monday, was out last day in Seoul before we checked out of our hotel in Seoul and started our nomadic journey to the southern tip on the peninsula.
Monday started with a visit to the agency that helped with Max's adoption and is the place where Dede and I stayed during our last visit to Korea. The agency has changed a bit since our last visit. The guest house and baby floor is no longer open. The babies waiting for adoption are now located in other locations across Korea. The building now houses services provided by Eastern Social Welfare Society in addition to their pre and post-adoption services. We met with the President of Eastern, some of the social workers and walked around to see some of the familiar areas of the building. Hard to believe that was just ~12 years ago.
After visiting Eastern we had some time for some much needed shopping. We visited the very familiar shopping area of Insadong. Its a quaint little shopping street with many local artist shops mixed in with the typical tourist shops.
After about an hour of shopping all forty of us took a cooking class and made our own supper. We made beef bulgogi. It was delicious! It is good to know Max and Dede know how to make it now; maybe I'll get a night off from cooking when we get home. 😀
The day finally wrapped up with the adoptees going out for a night of Karoke (noraebang in Korean) and the rest of us going out for beer, soju and soju-itos (mojitos made with Soju instead of rum is awesome)!
-Kurt
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