Swing the Monkey

Prep M, Harper's old class from CAC, have a special friend called Swing. He is a stuffed toy monkey that the kids get to take home and then write a little story about, telling what they did with Swing and take some photos of him doing these things with them. Miss Mullins (Teacher extrordinaire) kindly sent Swing over to Korea for a visit. As you can imagine, this was a very exciting time for us all and was great for Harper to see photos of his old classmates. We took Swing everywhere with us for about a week, at which point I had to spend a small fortune sending him back to Australia. While he was here we took him to Everland, a Korean version of Disneyland, as well as on a tour of Seoul. On our way back from this long and tiresome day we noticed that Swing was nowhere to be seen! He had done a runner. At this stage we were on the subway halfway back to Suwon, and in a state of panic. We mentally retraced what happened at the end of the day and worked out that we had left him on one of the tour buses. Of course there were plenty of tears and stress, and Harper had a bit of a cry as well. When we got home I rang the tour company and to our surprise, and relief, they said that they had him in their office. So 2 days later I was on my way back to northern Seoul to retrieve our little monkey. I have never experienced such relief when I finally had him back in my hands. This certainly was an adventure for us all, one we won't forget in a hurry.