A couple of weekends ago, my friend Brooke and I went to Daejeon to volunteer at an orphanage that a friend of mine from my TEFL course helps at. We spent a couple hours there teaching English. The first group of kids were had were elementary age, between 8-12 and the next group was middle/ high school age, between 15-20. It was a lot of fun. The younger kids were really rowdy and even a bit violet towards each other. The older kids were really into learning about fruit and paying attention to what we were teaching. Much more behaved. We played games with all of them and taught a mini lesson. I dont know too much about the adoption system here but from what I was told, Korean children cannot be adopted after the age of two. Once they past two, they are kept in the orphanages until after high school and when they get a job. Some of the even stay during university. A lot of them have at least one parent who is alive but it just unable to care for their child. They even sometimes let the parent come and take the child on weekends. It is a much different system here than back at home.
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