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Simply Seattle! – by DongHwan

DongHwan — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:45:26 +0000

I and my host family went to Seattle like a short trip on July 19th, Saturday and spent the day their and slept at John’s cousin’s house and came back at July 20th, Sunday. We went to see the MLB (Seattle Mariners VS Cleveland Indians) which was on Sunday so we left at about 10a.m.

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Guys, now you know that world is totally different, isn’t it?

MrPark — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:51:23 +0000

Hello guys,

It seems you are experiencing a completely different world. I bet such experiences will enlarge your view of the world and enrich your life. While staying there, forget everything back in Korea and just rejoice.

Saturday Market by HyeMin Lee

HyeMin — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:18:30 +0000

Last sunday, I, SunHye, Noel, Noel’s friend Jennifer and my host mother went to Saturday Market. Although it was too hot, many people came to the Market. I had never seen the homeless. However, I could see homeless in the market. It was somewhat novel to me. I think America would be very very developing

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Cannon!~.~ with Langfus Family~(I’m Kim, ChanJu)

ChanJu — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:16:02 +0000

In Sunday, I went to Cannon beach with my host family and Josh’s girl friend.

It took 3 hours for going to beach, over the mountain. Thus, I slept while going cannon.

When got off in beach town, I feel cold. Though it is summer, it was very cold. With cold, we went to beach. First,

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Have you ever been to garage sale? by Hanna

HanNa — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:13:25 +0000

Last Saturday, we went to garage sale. In Korea, there is no garage sale. Maybe there could be but I’ve never seen it. My host mom Kari said, in USA, second hand stuff is more popular than Korea. So in downtown we can some secondhand shops.

The weather was so hot, so at that time many

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Sliver Falls State Park by Youngju

YoungJu — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:04:15 +0000

Last Sunday, I and my host father Mitch went to the Silver Falls State Park. This area is famous for its wonderful 10 falls, scenic walks in the shade of trees and nice stream. I was really surprised at the fact that 10 falls is in same area.

When we get there, I can see a

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Choose one! beer or soccer? – PGE Park by JaeHyeon

JaeHyeon — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:02:07 +0000

I went to the PGE park with A-Ram and Josh(My host Grandson). PGE park was built to play baseball. However soccer match are often held in the place. I went to there to see the soccer match between Portland Timbers and Puerto Rico. First thing that made me surprised was food stores in the stadium. There

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Multnomah Waterfall by SeRom Yun

SeRom — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:00:54 +0000

I went to Multnomah waterfall on Sunday with my host family. It was very beautiful water fall in the wood. There was bridge but we didn’t went there because we was so tired. We went Hood river before waterfall so it makes us tired.

In the waterfall, there was a log fell from the upside

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Seaside Beach by SeungHun, Kim

SeungHun — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:59:03 +0000

Last Saturday, I went to seaside coast with my host family, Sandy and Shelly(Sol-i and Ji-Min) Because they live in Beckie’s grandmother’s house.(the mother of Beckie’s mother) Beckie’s another grandmother(the mother of Beckie’s father) lives near the seaside coast. Therefore we went grandmother’s house first. She was so kind. In addition, There was Beckie’s father, Steve.

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SEASIDE Touring * by Sol i Kim

Sol-i — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:58:44 +0000

Last Saturday, I went to seaside with Ji Min, Seung Hun, Beckie ( I introduced her to you guys at last post), and her husband Triston. Actually, we went to NIKE outlet before going to the beach, and we bought many clothes. It was a lot of fun !

While driving in Beckie’s car,

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Nordstrom Rack – A Treasure Ship in The Deep Ocean – by DongHwan

DongHwan — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:58:42 +0000

My friends and I went to the downtown for shopping and sightseeing on Monday. We went through the Pioneer Square and finally arrived at Nordstrom Rack. There was a real Nordstrom mall which wasn’t much far, but we went to the Nordstrom Rack to buy things cheap. Nordstrom Rack sells clothes, shoes, bags that weren’t

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Downtown tour – having fun weekend!

JinSeung — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:56:51 +0000

Last Sunday, I and Chanju hung out with my host-sun Josh. We decided to meet each other at 12 o’clock, but I got up too late in the morning that we managed to keep our appointment. We met each other at pioneer square, where a music concert was held. After listening to that some time,

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Movie Theater~~^^(the only visited place)

JaeHun — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:54:52 +0000

Have you ever been to the movie theater in America? Maybe, you don’t want to go there because there is no Korean subtitles!! At last Friday, July 11, I went to the American movie theater. When I heard that I had to go there, I was little afraid how I can understand the movie without Korean

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Family Fun Center! – by YeonJu Lee

YeonJu — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:54:13 +0000

Last Sunday, I went to the Family Fun Center with my host family and JiYoon. My host mother Naomi recommended this site and we agree with her. In this center, there are so many game machines and so many people who play the game. At first, I wanted to play ‘miniature golf’, but Naomi

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Pittock Mansion / by DaeKwang KIM

DaeKwang — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:54:12 +0000

We’ve been to Pittock mansion last Friday (07/11/08).

The Pittock Mansion was home to Henry and Georgiana Pittock from 1914 to 1919. After they lived, other family bought it for private. However, the City of Portland bought it again 1964 for $225,000. So it has been a community landmark ever since. It was interesting that

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Having fun in Cannon Beach By JuHwan^^

JuHwan — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:46:10 +0000

Last weekend, my host family suggested to go to the beach. In Saturday, we prepared for going beach. Catherine and Will who are kids in my host family were fun about going to beach.It takes 1 half hours to get there. The name of beach was Cannon Beach.

In there, we had a lunch first.

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How about visit this place? -by SeonHye

SeonHye — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:45:23 +0000

On Monday, I went to a restaurant with my host family. It was really interesting because it is on the river. When we ate lunch, the restaurant moved to up and down! It was so fun, and I kept laugh. At first, it was little dizzy, so if you have hard nausea, don’t go there.

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BEAUTIFUL SEASIDE BEACH by JIMIN

JiMin — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:43:27 +0000

Look at this picture! I went to seaside beach last Saturday with Sol-i, Seung hun, Beckie and Triston. After enjoying shopping at Nike Factory store for about an hour, we arrived this seaside beach ! At first, we walked along the beach for an hour. It was very cool and the weather was very nice. Also, it was

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Family Fun Center – very cool !!! by JiYoon Hong

JiYoon — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:39:36 +0000

Last Sunday, it was my first weekend in U.S. so my host family asked us where we wanted to go. However, we don’t know any interesting place so my host parent decided to go.

First, we had to go electronic centers to buy something, then we went Family Fun Center. There were so many people. Most

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Wunderland: Place for Game!! by MinGu Kang

MinGu — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:37:02 +0000

On July 12th, I went to Wunderland, which is the place to play many kinds of games.

Kim said “Here is one of the best place where children love to go!” When we went into there, we have to pay some money to play game but we have some coupon so that we enter free-charge!!

There are a lot

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Rose Garden. By. Yejin Kim.

YeJin — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:35:14 +0000

I went Rose Garden twice. I went there with my host family at first time, at second time, I went there with my friends. In first time, I went there after dinner. I had never seen so many kinds of roses like that. Sweet scent blow to me. It was really great. I saw many

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Playing Bowling By A-Ram Park

A-Ram — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:35:10 +0000

In last Friday, I went to bowling alley to play bowing with my host family Josh, his girlfriend Jenni and JaeHyeon I have never played bowling before It seems like easy but It doesn’t easy First time I got 90 points So I was 2nd Second time I was 4th Last time I was 3rd I want to

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Interesting places (esp, sports) by Minju Kim

MinJu — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:33:34 +0000

I went to the stadium ; There was a rugby game. Mixie played Rugby for 2 years. She explained the rules of rugby. It was really exciting and interesting. But It seems little dangerous. Many young men crashed against each other. Even, there was a fight for a while.

And I also went to the baseball game. It

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Great fish : Sturgeon by HeeJoong, Lim

HeeJung — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:27:20 +0000

I’ve stayed here in Portland for a week and every life has become routine. Today, I’d like to introduce all of you about my travel to watch sturgeon with my host family. Last Saturday, we went to watch sturgeon which is one of the largest fish in U.S. It is located near the Columbia Gorge.

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My Best Place, the Sandy River ….. by Yelina

YeRiNa — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:20:39 +0000

Last Saturday, I and my host family went to the Sandy River!! ^-^

Sandy River is very beautiful place. It’s little smaller than I thought. I went there with Rebekah’s friend. she is Vietnamese, and has two children. Her name is Roy. Her Kids name are maybe Jaeda and Ronnin. I am, however, not sure. Because their

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