These are our new-found friends. Kanako Muraguchi to my far left is a lovely, young Japanese girl who have been in US for quite a few years now. She did her first degree in the Virginia Islands before coming to SCAD for her masters majoring in Fibres (I never knew there were such courses! And yes, she deals with all kinds of textiles, including wallpaper textures and designs, not just clothings.) So her English is pretty good.

Park Hye Jin in the middle of the photo is doing her masters too (I can't remember what she's majoring in, I think something to do with film productions.). She has apparently made 15 films in Korea, but she says humbly that none had been blockbusters. Still, FIFTEEN films is enough credit to her name, I think! We got to know her as a friendly and outgoing girl. She is also the one to break the ice when we first met during the orientation for international students. We answered all her questions about us, and were only too pleased that there were people interested to get to know us.

They joined us on our night out on the river front to watch the fireworks go off on 4th July, Independence Day. Apparently, it's tradition to let off fireworks on America's national day, and every state holds its own fireworks celebration, paid for by its city council. In Savannah, fireworks would be released on 3rd July on Tybee Beach, and 4th July on River Street.

Incidentally, we were on Tybee Beach on 3rd July watching the first lot of fireworks. We almost missed both actually. The Lord divinely brought about a trivial conversation in church on 2nd July with a local Savannahhian, Janey, living on Tybee Beach. She told us it was always fireworks on Tybee Beach on 3rd July, followed by fireworks on River St on 4th July. We told her we had made arrangements with an American friend, Tracy, who was going to bring us to Tybee Beach on 4th July to watch the fireworks. In fact, we had turned down Ray's initial invitation because we thought we had already made arrangements to go Tybee Beach on 4th July. Janey told us we had definitely got the dates wrong. So we quickly called Tracy, changed the dates, and we ended up enjoying ourselves tremendously for the 2 days in a row! Praise the Lord!