I haven't written much here lately but I think I have a pretty good excuse. I'm in the middle moving my family to Korea. Daegu, Korea to be exact. Our stuff is packed up and gone, presumably on a boat headed towards the motherland and I'm typing this post out from our hotel room as I stress about the epic flight that lies before me. (I am clinging to the fact that we are on a Korean Airline Flight where the service is amazing.)
We will be there for 3 whole years. It's kind of mind boggling to imagine how changed we might be when we return. 3 years isn't a short amount of time -- especially for kids. It's more than a lifetime for my daughter. And being the Kimchi Mama I am, I couldn't help wondering how this would affect my THIRD generation KA children. How will it affect their language? How will it affect their perception of social rules and how they perceive themselves ethnically and nationally?
Might you other Kimchi Mamas be interested too? If you are, come join me on my adventure at Konglish Kids. It's the blog I started to kind of keep track of how this move and immersion into South Korean society affects my third generation KA kids.
One favor to ask though. I've been pretty open over here and in my other blogs about our identities. The babes were younger and we were in a safer location. Captain J however, has requested that I continue blogging only if I do a better job as this anonymity thing. I've closed down my personal blog that I used to use our real names on, and on Konglish Kids I've come up with super secret code names. So if you could please help me by starting to use the super secret code names if you need to use names and just be super secret about names and places in general. I hope rather than us, it'll be more fun to talk about what's actually happening, if anything actually happens at all.
