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Wednesday, June 23, 2010

hey, Jackson, look at this!

Kasey, you might wanna look away!  :P  We found another super creepy bug, this time on the playground.  Jon says they are poisonous, not enough to kill you, but enough to make a kid really sick.  So of course, since I pulled out the camera, I was mobbed by 5 kids all wanting to know, 'what is it?'


Ok, moving on.  Blegh!
There was a little disturbance on the playground tonight.  It bothered me. 
All of a sudden, there was a little Korean girl, about 5 or 6, and she was sobbing her heart out.  Obviously, I don't speak Korean, but after a couple of minutes of watching everyone else look around and away, I went and asked her what was wrong.  She could speak a little English, but not enough for me to understand.  So, since no one showed up for her, I took her a few yards down to the little market next to our apartment.  We were able to figure out pretty quickly that the school bus had dropped her off, and her mother was not home. 
Gah.  That just hurt my heart.  I couldn't even reassure her, and it made me feel really bad.
The shopkeeper asked if she wanted to stay with me, and she shook her head no really fast! :P
So she stayed at the store, and about half an hour later, I saw her mom come walking around the corner at the opposite end of the building.  It didn't seem like a big deal to her.  I think that bothered me more. 
Maybe she told her daughter she wouldn't be there, maybe the little girl just forgot she was supposed to stay outside and play for a little while.  But still, eek.  To be 6 again, and be that scared.  I don't ever want my kids to have to go through that. 

And that leads me to another reason why my kids will not attend school here.  In the event of NEO (noncombatant evacuation), there might not be time for children to be picked up by their parents.  Which means that the military will just keep them, and evac them as fast as possible. 

Uh uh.  No way.  Not over my cold ashes.  I'm not leaving a hostile country without each of my children.  There's no way I would do that to my kid.  Good thing that it doesn't seem like it will come to that. 

Anyhow, Jackson, I hope you liked the bug.  I'll keep watching for some more to post for you.  :)

3 comments:

Armywife said...

Jack loved the bug! He asked, "When will Amy put more bug pictures on?" ;) Thanks for posting this and sorry it took me so long to see it. No internet for a week sucks!

So sad about the Korean girl. That just breaks me heart! I'm so glad you took her to the market.

I agree with you 110% about the evac situation. Not today or any day, thankyouverymuch.

Amy said...

lol.. Tell Jackson we'll go bug-hunting for him soon. There are actually not too many that we have ever even seen here. Just the two that I've posted pics of so far.

Amy said...

lol.. Tell Jackson we'll go bug-hunting for him soon. There are actually not too many that we have ever even seen here. Just the two that I've posted pics of so far.