Birthday Present from my Parents

I don’t write much about my family here, but it’s time for an exception.  I have one of the coolest dads ever!  This year for my birthday, he got me a new kite.  A few years ago at a kite show, I saw a special kite I really liked.  It was a 4 string American Flag flown during the National Anthem.  For my birthday present this year, he had one similar made for me, but it’s much more impressive than the one flown at the show was.

In typical fashion for my dad, it wasn’t enough to get me this amazing kite… He had to go over the top.  At a recent kite show, for the National Anthem my new kite was flown by the same lady who flew the one at the show I first saw a similar kite at 5 years ago.  The announcer also mentioned that this flag was made for me and would be shipped to me right after the kite show.

One of the really cool things about this kite is the colors are all separate cloth sewn together.  Every star was cut out and sewn in separately.  The quality of the workmanship is very impressive.  I’ll post some more pictures of it after I’ve had a chance to fly it (something I haven’t found a good location for in Korea yet)

Completed a WordPress theme conversion for MaslowProject.com

My younger brother works as a mentor and case worker at a non-profit organization in Souhern Oregon called, The Maslow Project which is dedicated to helping homeless youth. The director and founder recently whet to Washington DC to be given an award for the best organization in the country dedicated to helping homeless youth.

When my brother started working there they were looking for someone to pu together a website for them, I volunteered to do this for them.

Finished RainbowReaders.com

After working on the RainbowReaders website for over three years, It is finally finished!

I started this site for my mother before she retired as a school teacher. She through her teaching career she became an expert in teaching students with reading disabilities. She wanted to hqv a site where she could share some of her experience with other teachers with the end goal of helping struggling readers learn to read.

While teaching, my mom developed some new methods of teaching reading. The results of her programs won her international recognition. Most of the students she tried her methods on increased their reading level by two to three grade levels in only one year.