Thursday, Rachel, me and Dad headed to Boise to pick up a new arrival from the airport. His name was Hwan. He’s a Korean friend who is n exchange student in America. Right now he’s living in Indiana, but he decided to come for a visit to Idaho.

The first night, we sat at the table and ate chips and salsa, then sang some songs, and umm went to bed!

Second day (Friday) in the afternoon, the Rudkins were going to some horse riding lessons and so asked Hwan if he and the rest of us wanted to come along and ride some horses. So Rachel, me and Hwan went along with them. When we got there, the guy hadn’t remembered that that day was riding lessons, so he was a little bit busy. He said that he had a group of preschoolers comming for horse rides, and that should only take 20 minutes. So we waited around, brushed some horses and then the preschoolers came. Just like he said, it only took about 20 minutes, but we didn’t really end up doing a trail ride or anything (they had said that was the plan.)

So, after that, Mrs. Rudkin brought us home, and we just sort of did a few things around the house. Then we went to FIGIO and the guy who was speaking was Mike Riddle. He spoke about Stem Cell Research, and said how Fetal stem Cell Research has yeilded no positive results, and adult stem cell research has saved more han 20,000 lives! Pretty interesting!

And also after FIGIO, Pastor Deskins talked to Hwan and Hwan got saved! Really really good news! It was exciting

Then also, right as we were planning on leaving, I asked Dad if we wanted to get a subscription to Answers Magazine because they were offering a free DVD with each year you subscribe. He said yeah and I asked how long: “However long you think” he replied. So I ran over to the church building (that’s where they were handling subscriptions) and came in right while they were packaging things up. “I hope I’m not too late!” I thought. But luckily, I asked if I could get a subscription and the lady said “Oh sure! Just fill this form out.” So I did… The paper they were using kept on making the pen not work. So right as I was filling out my email, it stopped as I was writing “gmail.com”. And the lady said “Is it gmail?” “yeah” “ok, I’ve got gmail” So she just took it without me having to finish that. Then I was going to get my DVD’s but they’d already put them in the car to take home! So I went out there, and they got all the boxes out. I was looking through all the different ones trying to find the ones I liked, and Mike said “You can just take a six pack if you want.” “Really?” “Yeah, sure. You can have a better deal for waiting till the last moment!” “ok!” So he got them out, and I picked his set.

So then I thanked them, and went back over to the gymn building. I was just leaning against the wall listening to conversations when the lady came in and said “You forgot to pay for your subscription!” I said “oh sorry!” So we went over to the church building again, and she said “22 dollars” So I gave her that, and she gave me the latest issue. Then as I was walking out the door I was thinking “Wait a minute… I got a two year subscription didn’t I?” So I turned around, went back inside and said “I got a two year subscription!” And she looked at the form and said “oh! 40 dollars!” So I gave her the extra money and they said “Thank you for your honesty!” And then I headed out to the car with my new issue, and put it in the car.

Then I went back in to the gym, and listened to them talk for a little while, and then we went home.

I went to bed shortly after we went home.

On Saturday, we played some table games including Scrabble, Upwards, and Settlers. Then in the evening we went over to Anna and Calebs house for dinner. While we were there, Joe and Laura and their family came over, and brought a canoe. Hwan had never been canoeing, so we took it out on to their pond, and went turtle hunting (sorta.) After we went around trying to sneak up on turtles for a while, we decided we wouldn’t be able to catch one in the canoe, so we heading back to the shore. There, two of Joe’s girls, one of his boys, and Rachel all wanted a canoe ride, so, they all got in, Joe got out, and we went for a ride around the pond. It was interesting; they tried to go fishing, but I think we were all just a bit loud for that.

Then we went back to shore, and everybody got out except me. Then Mary got in, and we went for a short ride. After we did that, it was just about time for Joe to go home, so we took his canoe back to their SUV, and put it on top. Then I went inside and had some dinner (I was hungry!) It was spaghetti.

After I had dinner, we left and went home. Once we were home, we finished the game of settlers we had started. Hwan won I think.

Then I went to bed.

On Sunday, the morning wasn’t too interesting, but we had a barbecue in the afternoon, and played baseball in the evening. It was pretty fun. We were all pretty tired after playing baseball….

Monday, not too much interesting happened that I can remember… We played some more bored games; In fact, we played a lot of bored games while Hwan was here! And umm, after that, we went to nursing homes. (and you know what’s strange, the phone just rang and it was Kathy asking if I was going to nursing homes tonight!) He had fun singing to all the elderly people. Then we went home, and played some more bored games!

On Tuesday, It was one of the less exciting day (aka, a relaxing day….) We played some bored games, and just sort of recharged.

Wednesday, Hwan came with me to the men’s breakfast at 6AM, and he decided he doesn’t like waking up that early We both wound up going back to bed, but he slept in until almost 4PM! I didn’t think I woke him up that early Anyways, that night, Rebecca and Josh were over, and we cooked some cake or something… It was fairly good. Actually got to bed fairly early that night… 11:30!

Thursday, Hwan went over to Anna and Calebs in the morning, and rode horses with Caleb. In the meantime, Rachel went shopping with Anna and didn’t get home until 2PM. While all of this was going on, I was just trying to catch up online, and read some of my Answers Magazine. First Caleb and James got home with Hwan, and James, Me and Hwan went out and shot the slingshot, sling and airsoft out in the barn yard. Then Anna and Rachel got home, and they brought home Dutch Bro’s coffee ^_^ It was verry good! Then we wound up doing a whole yard cleanup project around here. Everybody helped and we got a lot done! Before it got dark, Caleb and James went home. We stayed up pretty late that night, but it was Hwan’s last night here.

Then on Friday, it was Hwan’s last day; They went yardsaling in the morning, and I woke up pretty late. I decided to bike down to the trailer park where the yard sales were, and on my way there, they were on their way back, so they stopped, and I put my bike in the back of their truck, and we went home. Then in the afternoon, Rachel, Me and Dad took Hwan to Boise to the airport, and we said goodbye to him.

That’s pretty much it! Sorry it’s so long

-Benjamin