One last introduction: Kate Lee!
May 2011
From the first day that I met her in September of 2010, I was captivated by Kate's bubbly personality. Never before have I met someone who expresses so much enthusiasm in her speech and I just love it! Kate is able to take any common or bland English phrase and spice it up with some Korean inflection and flavor--I find myself smiling just thinking about it :) Some of these phrases include, "Oh my gosh!"... "That is so gross!"... "OH! Watch the poops!" [exclaimed on several of our treks through the woods when we would come upon an animal dropping]... "Lauren, what is that?"... "Oh, that is so good!"
There is so much that I value in Kate. She is exuberant. She is funny. She is entertaining. She is brave. She is extremely disciplined and extraordinarily intelligent. At the 8th grade awards ceremony last Saturday, Kate won an academic award for being the top scholar in her Algebra 1 class. We were so proud! And then, I can't forget to say that Kate is such a romantic! On special occasions, when we have guests over for dinner at Liel, each student is encouraged to ask the guest a question of any kind--it can be serious, goofy, relevant, irrelevant, spiritual, etc. But the BEST question that always receives the BEST answers would consistently come from Kate when she asked, "What is your LOVE story?!?" Sometimes the guest would keep his or her answers brief, but others would go into extreme detail and the answer became more of a narrative that would have us rolling on the floor in fits of laughter with cramps in our stomachs and tears in our eyes. We could always expect that Kate would be brave enough to ask this question to any guest invited to our table :)
Kate comes to us from Seoul, South Korea, because it was extremely important to her parents that she receive a formal English education in an authentically Christian environment. She left all of her Korean friends, her culture, her family, and everything that was familiar in order to come to BFA. And so, I admire her strength and her courage.
Some interesting facts about Kate:
-She is obsessed with oranges and bananas...she eats them like candy!
-She wrote in her BFA application that she wants to be a foreign diplomat when she grows up
-The first thing that she is going to do when she arrives home tomorrow is kiss her two dogs!
-Kate is extremely thoughtful and encouraging--before leaving for Korea today, she left handwritten notes for all of the girls
-She is a creative and contemplative. Enjoy her poem entitled, "True Love"
It's white and pure like snow
comes to my cold heart
looking inside of my heart
and waits until the door opens.
It's warm and bright like the light
touches my cold heart
knocking the door softly
comes inside my heart softly.
It's hot and strong like fire
lives in my heart
getting bigger and bigger
consumes my heart completely.
It becomes cold and dry like ice
leaves my heart
taking warmness and brightness
gives hurts to my heart.
My heart closes the door now
tears falling down
waiting, waiting for my true love.
Kate the Romantic!
(After the girls had finished playing 'makeover')
February 2011
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