Monday, July 29, 2013

Baby Diplomats have birthday's with unusual names



Ok so it's been a year and a half since I last posted.  Hey I've been busy!  Kinda:-)  Anyway, I'm going to get caught up on the past. So hang on, here we go.

So Baby Diplomat's have unusual birthdays for sure. This is me on my first birthday, also known as a "Dol".  In Korea baby's celebrating their first birthday are expected to participate in a Tolijabee.  During this celebration the baby wears the traditional Korean attire called the "hanbok" and is seated in front of a table with numerous items on it.  The tradition says that the item the baby selects is an indicator of what their future will be.  This is me in front of the table (our's was sort of a modernized version several non-traditional items here).  I picked the book (which stood for educator) and almost at the same time the ball (which was for athlete).  So I'm not sure what that means. Maybe PE teacher:-)  I wasn't very fond of the "hanbok" but I wore it and after some cake almost forgot I even had it on:-)