I don’t really understand your school Sudona. It is so different from the school experience I had growing up. One of the biggest parts of my school experience was being on the school’s sports teams. But as you know, your school has no school teams. Instead you have these sports ‘festivals’ and school dance routines. You seem to have a good time so that is all that matters.

Here is a short video of the school dance routine. It went on forever and it was incredibly boring to watch so I decided to edit it way down to just a 2 minuted clip.

I love playing with you girls. I have always been kind of rough but I think it is more fun that way. Does it lead to some tears? Yes. But you girls seem to like it so I keep it up. Some people say, “But they are girls, shouldn’t you be gentle.” Well, I don’t see it that way. I treat you the same way that I would treat a son if I had one. Even though I more often played with “boys toys’ with you Sudona you are definitely a girl. At this age you are not a ‘gentle’ girl but most girls aren’t. I know because of the way I have always played rough with you, you are the girl in your class that can play with the boys and beat them up. I love your stories about how you just do the fist flinch at boys and they run away.

Here is a video of me throwing you girls around on our bed. We did it for a while but I just edited it down to this.

Another fun modeling experience. You are having fun, doing a great job. You know, as I am typing this you are off doing another modeling shoot. We cut down on a lot of your modeling over the last month so you are more excited about modeling now.

You girls had a great time hanging out with your friends and doing some cooking for some event. I wasn’t able to go because I had to work but you girls came back with all kinds of stories. You cooked dong-gas with your mom and your friend’s mom and your friends. Then you girls ran around and played as your mom sat and drank with her friend and other people. Your mom told me that there was one older woman that invaded everyone’s personal space. It really annoyed everyone but no one could say anything so they just tried to make sure they didn’t sit next to her. She would actually lay up against whoever happened to be sitting next to her.

It is really interesting to see the difference in both of you girl’s characters. Some things become more evident as Avya gets older. When you were young Sudona you never were really into music. You mother tried teaching you songs but you didn’t learn them easily and you had no desire to learn new ones. You Avya, on the other hand love singing and you are always singing. You quickly pick up new songs and always want to learn new songs. It seems like learning new songs comes very easily to you. Matter of fact, you Sudona have been singing Chinese songs that you learn in school and Avya heard you singing them and within a few tries she got them down perfectly. You told us Sudona that her pronunciation is perfect and she knows all the words. I will have to capture that on video and put it up.

But one thing that both of you girls enjoy is dancing. You are always dancing around the house and I seldom get it on camera. But I was able to get a little here.

Here you are girls doing some imagination playing around the house. You decided you would put on a modeling show and it slowly progressed to have more and more detail. I actually captured quite a bit of video of this but I just edited it down a minute and a half. It started off as just a runway show and then it progressed into selling stuff. It is great to see you girls using your imaginations.

The cool thing is that you girls actually get to model in real life. You don’t know how lucky you are to have those experiences. Other kids like to put on modeling shows just like you girls did but they never get the chance to really do it. You have to appreciate that but always stay humble. Just because you get to model does not mean you are better than anyone else or can’t learn from  others.

I love you girls.

I know I made a post in the past about your Face Factory modeling but I came across more photos of you on their site so I thought I would post about it. I will also have to make another post in the future when we get the portraits they painted. That was part of the deal about doing the modeling for them. That is, they would give you some portraits.

I thought I would mention something I think is pretty cool. The is a popular show in Korea called Stalking. On this show they have normal people come on and show some special talent or something special they can do. They saw your pictures Avya and also your videos on the net and so they called your mom and asked for you to be on the show. Your mom and I talked about it and thought that there would be no benefit to it because you are too young to have any special talent. They called back and your mother told them that we would have to pass. I guess they really wanted you on the show so they called back and begged you to come in and talk with them. So you and your mother headed to the studio to talk with the writers and producers. They loved you and wanted you to still be on the show. They said that you could be on as an Ull-Jjong (this is slang for ‘very beautiful face’). We talked about it some more and finally decided that it wasn’t the best thing right now. We feel that when you get older you can do the show if you want to at that time and if you have some special ability to show off. Pretty cool life, huh?

Your school, Sudona asked me to come in on a Monday and teach your class for an hour. I asked you what you thought about it and you said that you would like it so I agreed. I lesson planned an English game we could play and that way the kids could have fun and it would make you look good in front of you friends. After that we decided to get some small gifts that we would hand out to all the students. This turned out to be more of a challenge than we thought it would be and it took us a long time at the store to choose the right gifts. You ended up choosing some erasers – some with the pictures of Korean money on them and some in the shape of sea creatures.

So, I went to the school and you were my teacher’s helper. We played the game and the kids loved it and you told me later that I really made a good impression. I think this made you look better to your friends and led to greater confidence in you.

Unfortunately I didn’t get any pictures from this and I hate doing posts without pictures or a video so I though I would put an old picture up.

This is just a moment in time kind of video. Of course, you girls have your good days and your bad days and your both know how to irritate each other if you want. In this video you, Sudona had put together some funny routine and it was pretty funny so I decided to go and get the camera so I could capture it. I sat down to record it and Avya no longer wanted to do it. This really frustrated you Sudona and in the end it led to some tears. But also you, Sudona were trying to be a little to exact with Avya. You need to learn to accept that she is not going to do things exactly as you want her to all the time.