I share a guest house apartment with Karla Konrad, an ESL teacher and professor in the Lifelong Learning Center at Luther University. In the photo where she is wearing the pink sweatshirt; we are eating bowls of Korean Beef soup accompanied by various side dishes and rice.
We are having lunch with four professors and an administrative assistant, who keeps the ESL Camp organized. The main dish is beef barbecued on a charcoal fire, built right into the table. There is another K in the picture, kimchi, which is the Korean national dish. It is fermented cabbage with a hot pepper sauce, some versions are hotter than others, but it is present at every lunch and dinner.
Karla has been with me on most of my off campus adventures. She's a great sport. Chelsea Madden, a recent college grad who volunteered at ESL Camp last summer, joined us at Camp one day late because of visa problems (Does this sound familiar?). She went up to the Seoul Tower with us last Saturday. You can get a bird's eye view of Seoul in the background. We are standing in front of a fence covered in locks. If a couple puts a lock on the fence, they are joined together as long as the lock stays locked.
more k's to follow, but not tonight.
Jane
