Korean Kindness

I can't say enough how well we have been treated here.  The Rotarians are just fabulous people.  We have been welcomed warmly.  All our needs have been taken care of.  For example, we said in the afternoon that we wanted to go shopping for toiletries and towels because we were staying in dorms for a few days.   After dinner, towels and toiletries magically appeared . . .

We talk and laugh, we understand each other better through interpreters, but we have fun even without.  And then we discuss things like what Rotary's next big focus may be.  Right now it is eradication of polio from the planet.  Only 4 more countries to go! 

Last night we were at a formal Rotary function.  When we walked in the room, Cynthia, one of my team-mates, said, "Look!  It's all our friends!"  People we'd been on tours with, people who'd given us rides and in whose homes we had stayed . . .

We were each given a bouquet of flowers when we arrived at the Incheon Airport.  This was mine.