This morning I got my two older sons ready to go to Korean Class, all the while listening to them complain about getting dressed, going, and doing the work it involves. This morning I left my house with the attitude and thought that this would be our last semester participating.
It's hard to give up every Saturday morning for a semester, and it's hard to do the extra work, and it's inconvenient.
But luckily today that was all challenged.
Today we had an adult adoptee from Korea give a lecture on the cultural identity of Korean American adopted children that are being raised by White Americans. Of course his title was 20 words longer and had a lot of complicated language, but I just summed it up in the simplest way possible.
Everything he brought up was something I had thought about in the past - which is part of the reason I was there in the first place. I guess the problem is that until now I've only been doing a lot of thinking - and quite a bit of thinking that what I was doing wasn't really appreciated by my son or important to him.
But this speaker today challenged that.
Today I am thankful for people who are passionate enough to challenge the norm.
I wish I could go into more details here, but my brain is fried. Perhaps I'll have the energy to write about it again very soon. Until then I have a lot of thinking over to do.
It's hard to give up every Saturday morning for a semester, and it's hard to do the extra work, and it's inconvenient.
But luckily today that was all challenged.
Today we had an adult adoptee from Korea give a lecture on the cultural identity of Korean American adopted children that are being raised by White Americans. Of course his title was 20 words longer and had a lot of complicated language, but I just summed it up in the simplest way possible.
Everything he brought up was something I had thought about in the past - which is part of the reason I was there in the first place. I guess the problem is that until now I've only been doing a lot of thinking - and quite a bit of thinking that what I was doing wasn't really appreciated by my son or important to him.
But this speaker today challenged that.
Today I am thankful for people who are passionate enough to challenge the norm.
I wish I could go into more details here, but my brain is fried. Perhaps I'll have the energy to write about it again very soon. Until then I have a lot of thinking over to do.
1 comments:
Dear, weary Tiffany,
I would love to hear much more about this Korean class, and I do hope that you will find the energy and time in the future to go into some detail. Hope you will find some times of rest on this most beautiful Sabbath!
Julie
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