On Monday, I got up early and walked to the school.
It was a typical fresh autumn weather, sunny and windy.
Did I say that I couldn’t use my cell phone in Kent? It seemed my phone couldn’t find the right frequency there. So I told Mr. Cloutier once, ‘Somehow I can’t use my cell phone around here.’ Then he said, ‘I am not surprised, my phone doesn’t work either. That’s why I use phone only in my office and home.’
In addition, it wasn't easy to access to the Internet.
Well, I thought it was not that bad to be disconnected from the outside like that. But, I needed to send some photos of Mr. Kwon to Seoul via email by the day.
Thus I went to the school in the early morning and looked for Ms. Cloutier’s office.
(Ms. Cloutier is a dean of juniors)
The campus was more live and cheerful. Students got dressed up and walked back and forth between school buildings. I stopped one of them and asked if he knew where the deans’ office is. He didn’t know, but told me that there would a meeting in a minute for the whole students and all deans were supposed to be there.
I asked ‘Can I go there?’ and he said ‘I think so. Just follow me, I am going there.’

Ms. Cloutier was there as the student expected. She was checking every student’s name that came to the meeting among juniors. I happily greeted to her. She looked quite busy though.
After a while, the meeting got begun and she asked me if I was interested in seeing the meeting.
‘YES I AM!’
At the meeting, they talked about H1N1 flu, a campaign for the homeless, blood drive, and group photo etc. After the meeting, Ms. Cloutier showed me the students’ building, where there are snack corner, a shop for everything and mail boxes etc. Oh and there were some tables, cozy looking chairs and TV, too. Then Ms. Cloutier let me use her computer at her office.   

As I was having lunch with Mr. Kwon at the Dining Hall, Mr. MacLeod greeted to us and shook hands with us. He is a Math teacher, Chess club advisor and football coach at the same time.
He said he was interested in learning Go, but couldn’t come to the lecture because he was out of town during the weekends.
And when I was having a conversation with Mr. MacLeod, another teacher approached to me and greeted. (I forgot his name……T_T) He was a French teacher, and knew a little about Go through a French novel titled ‘La Joueuse De GO’ which is ‘The Girl who Played Go’ in English.
Actually I, too have the book in Korean. I bought it when I was about 14. But my dad read it before me and told me not to read the book. That’s why I haven’t read it yet. I guess dad didn’t allow me to read it because it contains some ‘adults’ stuff’.  

The French teacher said that he had tried to play Go a few times, but didn’t know when to finish the game and count territories. Yea, I clearly understood him. Isn't it one of the most difficult part for the beginners? So I told him, 'Don't worry, you will get the hang of it soon if you keep playing and studying it.'

By the time we almost finished lunch, Mr. MacLeod asked me if we have a plan before the meeting with Chess club, which was from 6 pm. I said no, and he invited us to his Math class.
WOW. I thought that would be great. Mr. Kwon also liked it.

About 10 students were in the Mr. MacLeod’s Math class. We showed them a part of Hikaru no Go TV animation first, and taught them very basic rules of the game. Because we had such a short time to introduce the game, we had to focus on core points. Then students played each other for a while. Later, I asked Mr. MacLeod if he thought students liked it.
He said “some of them seemed like it, but you know, they at least got to know what it is. That’s important.”
Right. I agree.

That night, Mr. Kwon and I went to Mr. MacLeod’s house, which is located in the school campus. That’s where the Chess club meets. He said usually 6 or 7 students came to the Chess club at a time. Yet, this time Mr. MacLeod advertised that Go masters would demonstrate the game, and pizza would be served. And, most importantly, everyone is welcomed including school staff and teachers.
Thanks to Mr. MacLeod’s ardent inviting, (or pizza) so many people were present then.
Though I am not sure how many people were there that night, (probably more than 20?) one thing is certain that 10 large sized pizzas were not enough. (Oh, and 6 of go sets were not enough either. J) It was more like friends gathering rather than ‘an official meeting’. So we taught the comers individually and let them play each other.