Chasing Possibilities

PART 1 Beginning

- Becoming a backpacker at only 3
- The fundamentals of traveling
- Replacing Inconsideration
- What present will not disappear after use?
- The two irreplaceable tools

PART 2 Discovery

- The destined encounter, ‘Permata Hati’
- Closer through music
- Ayu’s first letter
- The return. The start of magic
- Ayu’s second letter
- Help recognizes each other and unites
- A happy farmer of a fertile land
- The script of “Brahma’s other world”
- Ayu’s third letter
- Expanding the realm of possibility
- Ayu’s fourth letter
- Everybody, every instrument
- Ayu’s other letters
- Now, time to unite with more

PART 3 A challenge: The birth of Voluntraveling

- Beginning ‘Voluntraveling’
- A bigger response than expected
- Happy and Merry Voluntraveling
- A certain promise on my part
- Recalling some of the memorable classes
- Not even the beginning of the end, but perhaps the end of the beginning
- Ms. So Young’s Voluntraveling review
- Voluntraveling even children can easily do it
- The meaning of donating money - The Yoo Chan fund
- Ending the first Voluntraveling

PART 4 Continuing: A report on the second Voluntraveling

- The second Voluntraveling
- Recalling some of the memorable classes
- A rare experience enjoyed: A water park day trip
- The last dentist treatment, and goodbye
- Ms. Ga Young’s Voluntraveling review
- The bond with Ms. Lee Hyuna
- Ms. Lee Hyuna’s Voluntraveling review
- The miracle created by small supports
- The children all get to have their own book
- The following third Voluntraveling, children, fly high!

Epilogue

We developed a set of rules for our travels. Rules based on meeting as many locals as possible. Luckily, this meant the lowest cost. (…) As I grew older the number of countries I visited grew parallel with my age. Each visit the routine continued. Wander through the villages and small towns. Find some friends to play with. Play. Hard. Move on to the next village. ― 「The fundamentals of traveling」

We considered marking off giving as a failure, but then we realized that depended on how we defined giving. Like most Koreans our materialistic minds had initially limited the vast meaning of giving to small presents. But in reality there was so much more to it. This became clear that night, when exhausted and in our room, mom asked, half to me, half to herself. “What could there be? What could remain instead of disappearing so easily?” That made me think. I mean, what could we give them? What would make me feel happy if somebody got me something? I knew of one thing that not only made me happy, but made others happy when I played it. My response to her was, “Music!” ― 「What present will not disappear after use?」

As soon as Luis saw my violin case he requested, “Please teach us how to play violin.” My mother replied, “But he’s only 9 years old.” To which he said, “It doesn’t matter, at least he professionally learned the instrument.” And just like that, I became a miniature teacher. (…) That experience was also the first official teaching I ever did. I liked it, and it became an added part to the routine. Whenever it could be applied. This continued throughout the remainder of my childhood, until it was rudely interrupted by the necessities of study and school, I traveled thus, over 30 countries. All of them developing countries. With each country we visited an establishment with children. Never without the two ‘tools.’ ― The two irreplaceable tools」