My life in Suwon and my perspective on the world and its people: 10/01/2013

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2013-10-14

Help Your Suwon Week 94

Current Balance : 232,314
Previous Balance : 142,014
Newly Deposited : 90,300

In the first place, I would like you to click on the scanned bankbook file and see the balance. Whopping 90,000 won has been funnled into our account this morning and this was because of a) Sarah's parents' magnanimous donation to the group and b) last night's attendance; 9 people, which is the highest since forever.

Sarah's parents were in town and were kind enough to, with her boy friend, June, help the homeless with the rest of the participants last night. In addition, they have brought goodies from the hotel they are staying in. The items were personal hygine kits such as disposable tooth brushes, razors, slippers and so forth. We left them in the good hands of the workers at the shelter.

Becasue we had more people than usual, we purchased 40 items for each and gave them away. Afterwords, we headed to a gal-bi restaurant and enjoyed galbi. There, the parents treated us and we were very very thankful for it. The evening continues with some of us endedup taking sticker pictures together and having bing-soo at a local cafe bene.

What the parents saw last night may not be the best part of Korea, but it is still part of it. A dune of garbage in the back street, homeless drinking soju at a local train station, a little baby hovering around those drunken homeless and so forth. But, they came here to make a difference and, I presume, must be very proud of her daughter who has been trying with the rest of Help Your Suwon.

As the Fall wanes and the breeze blows, it was a bit chilly, but our hearts weren't because of the people next to each other.

Thank you everyone, especially, Sarah, her parents and June-