South Korea Busan

In the hypermarket" Homeplus" near  the marina  we met Jennifer, an Australian lady (  blond/white  is notable in Korea) and we make a chat. She is from Brisbane  and her husband  ,Rowan , is manager of  a container terminal in Busan. Jennifer invites us  at home and it becomes a ,nice sociable evening. Now we talking  and  know each other better / closer ,  it turns out that Jennifer is born in Canada  and that her father and mother  from Makkum (Friesland , a state in the Netherlands)) emigrated. Her last name gave us the indication   Tichelaar       ...... Jennifer does not speak  the Frisian language -  nor Dutch, but her  mothers - 90 years old – remembers  a lot  from the old days  and told that she ,as a young girl also was wearing wooden shoes (klompen) . We ,Sytske en Adri,  were  living in Sneek , about 30 km from Makkum…How and why do we met this Jennifer in a town with  3,6 milj   people   ?Predestined ??? It's a small world ?

We were wondering why the “children” in that family did not learn Dutch or Fries . (Jennifer has a sister and a brother) and only speak  English. However as soon as the family  lived in Canada they decided to learn English  as soon as possible."We have left Holland ,this is our new home country and we have to acclimatize total."  So the parents did not speak the Dutch to each other , We heard that also from other families which  went abroad,   Most of them left Holland because the bad economical situation in that time , and nobody expected to go back ever…

Meanwhile we learnt that  Jennifer’s  l brother lives in Vancouver and a retired  teacher /school director is i….He knows that we are in Vancouver next  year and we hope to meet him . 

                                                                           


With Jennifer  we went  a few days to the historical sites i,e,   which the  “is called “ Kyota of Korea” . We visit the famous  traditional temples (o.a Bugsuka) , the Royal Tomb `s , and the , Buddha in the grotto. There is much to see and we enjoyed   very . Later in the week  we had few times lunch and dinner together dinner together and the ladies went shopping in  Shinsagae Mall .                                 
We had a wonderful time with Jennifer and Rowan and hope we will  meet again some where