We had a date yesterday with our 71 year old friend, Kim Young Dal. He is the one who took us on a little walking tour a few days ago. We planned to meet up Subday so he could show us the rest of the fortress. We figured that it would take maybe an hour... As it turned out, it took THREE hours and a lot of it was steep inclines! Luckily, I had worn sensible running shoes, while the other girls toughed it out in sandals! It was a really interesting walk though... We saw all the old ramparts and smoke signal stations as explained to us in broken English with vigorous hand movements and sound effects. We also looked like incredible slugs next to Mr. Kim... We were huffing and puffing and insisted on stopping at the visitor centre for water and ice cream! Apparently next Sunday he wants to take us hiking to a mountain, so stay tuned!!
Today is our first day of camp. Classes don't start until 9:30 so that seems pretty luxurious compared to our 8:00am start time in Taiwan. I have the oldest/most advanced kids this time and we are running two camps at the same time: Monday/Wednesday/Friday will be one group of kids and Tues/Thurs/Sat, a second group... We will be teaching mostly the same thing to both groups, so we should find every other day easy.
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