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
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