Jamie with new friends John(11), Hannah(7), and Shunta(7)Today was the day of the big MIT Sloan picnic. We drove out to Concord,MA to Camp Thoreau - about 17 miles from home. We crawled there in the car since we're having overheating problems. We drove as far as we could with the car heating up, and then pulled over to wait about 5 minutes for the car to cool a little so we could go a little further. It took about 45 minutes to go those 17 miles. We were lucky that the weather was cool and overcast/rainy. At the picnic, Jamie and Rachel made some friends. Jamie met a boy named John (an Americanized name) who is from South Korea. They played basketball in the rain then soccer then giant frisbee. I think that Jamie & John will be good friends because Tim and John's dad are in the same study group. Rachel played with a couple of little girls - Yuna and Lina from Japan. Some of the guys also put together an impromptu soccer game. David enjoyed splashing in the puddles, playing with a basketball, and then disrupting the frisbee game between Jamie, John and his little sister Hannah. We made it home fine - stopping a couple of times to let the car cool. The final time, we stopped at a little park and let the kids get out and play for a few minutes. Then we spent a quiet night at home.
David playing frisbee with the big kids. John was very sweet to let David have his turn. David even
began to hug on John by the end of the game!
began to hug on John by the end of the game!
Rachel playing a little badmitton with Lina. John's mom (June-Haw Sook) looks on.
Rainy basketball with John.
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In addition to John's dad (Charlie), the rest of my study group is Luis (Portugal) and Ramesh (India). We have about four weeks to complete four semester-long graduate school business classes, so we'd better learn how to lean on one another. We've spent a week on group dynamics and team building, so I think we're off to a good start.
Hey - did you know that our home-away-from-home has the highest per capita rate of Nobel Laureates? Check out Belmont on Wikipedia. Also notice the list of residents - how come my name isn't on there yet? :-0
cheers!
tim
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