While I wait of my DNA testing results, I want to share something more fun with you.
Now, I'm not much of a barfly, not a club rat, or any of those "cool" cliques. In fact, stay at home and crafting/reading are more along my idea of a "good time." So, when I want to get out of the room and have a change of scene, I like to spend time in cafes...and Korea is jam-packed with them..which is wonderful. They have the most wonderful "theme cafes" and I am going to work on go to as many as I can.
Saturday, August 27, 2016
Wednesday, August 24, 2016
Family Tree DNA
Ok, so, following up on last post, I want to talk a little more about the DNA test itself.
The DNA tests for Korean adoptees and Korean birth parents are provided by a donation from Thomas Park Clement, who is himself a Korean adoptee. The kits are from Family Tree DNA (FTDNA) (www.familytreedna.com) which will analyze your initial results. You are then at liberty to upload your results to additional third-party family tree/DNA analyzing sites.
The DNA tests for Korean adoptees and Korean birth parents are provided by a donation from Thomas Park Clement, who is himself a Korean adoptee. The kits are from Family Tree DNA (FTDNA) (www.familytreedna.com) which will analyze your initial results. You are then at liberty to upload your results to additional third-party family tree/DNA analyzing sites.
Sunday, August 14, 2016
KoRoot
Edited August 24, 2016: To include posters about the Korean Adoptee and Birth Parents DNA project.
Again, its been a long time since I posted. I had the WORST summer camp of my teaching career here in Korea. Honestly, if I had not worked so hard, prepared so many materials, and spent so much of my own money on this camp I wouldn't have cared. However, during the entire camp planning process I was constantly being pressure to make the camp "fun and interesting" and add more activities...on a budget of about $100 which I was only allowed 40 of it because we HAD to have pizza on the last day...to the point where my job was passive-aggressively threatened if I didn't have a "good enough" camp. SIGH! But that is not the point of this post.
This post is to introduce you to KoRoot, a guesthouse here in Korea that is primarily for Korean adoptees. I've never stayed here, but my impression is it is more for long-term guests. So, I didn't make the trip for a place to crash. They also offer NGO services of adoptee issues, and currently are offering DNA testing for Korean adoptees who are long-term residents in Korea and Korean birth parents.
Again, its been a long time since I posted. I had the WORST summer camp of my teaching career here in Korea. Honestly, if I had not worked so hard, prepared so many materials, and spent so much of my own money on this camp I wouldn't have cared. However, during the entire camp planning process I was constantly being pressure to make the camp "fun and interesting" and add more activities...on a budget of about $100 which I was only allowed 40 of it because we HAD to have pizza on the last day...to the point where my job was passive-aggressively threatened if I didn't have a "good enough" camp. SIGH! But that is not the point of this post.
This post is to introduce you to KoRoot, a guesthouse here in Korea that is primarily for Korean adoptees. I've never stayed here, but my impression is it is more for long-term guests. So, I didn't make the trip for a place to crash. They also offer NGO services of adoptee issues, and currently are offering DNA testing for Korean adoptees who are long-term residents in Korea and Korean birth parents.
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