Gwangju International Center

Kimchi Farm Exchange : Speaker Peter Gallo introduced about his program, kimchi farm exchange and he shared his experiences and lessons he has learned during as a life with the audience.

 

 Peter began his life in Korea as only an English teacher, but has since added the role of popular farmer. He is working as a volunteer and advocate for small organic farm projects based mainly in New Mexico. He described his vision for an international exchange program based in both korea and the US. At first he was a little frustrated when he was only working as an English teacher in the classroom, because he wanted to be working outside. However, working as an English teacher gave him a lot of chances to become a more active volunteer for organic farming. He explained about his Kimchi Farm Exchange project with illustrating his explanation with many pictures. He showed various pictures about what he is doing in the program. His presentation included details of his personal experiences including his wedding ceremonies in both Korea and the US. The two ceremonies happened with full support from his family.Therefore it was easy to focus on his speech. Also he included some well-timed jokes.

 

 It seemed that all of the audience felt satisfied with today’s talk. Most people who were attending the talk were very interested in the kimchi farm exchange, even though those people were maybe not interested in farm life in general.