Did I mention the DMZ?
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What’s the DMZ? C’mon now people. The Demilitarized Zone. The area that divides North and South Korea. THE BORDER.
To be fair I didn’t even know WHERE Korea was when I applied to work out here. I’d memorized it ALL for history class in 7th grade so I don’t see how any of it could have escaped me. 😉
We went to the DMZ back in November but a lot of the “blog details” are lost since it’s, uh, February. Luckily I have pictures…
In this instance WE constitues most of the foreign staff at my school: Justine, Laura, Ana, Diane, Heidi, Hayley and moi. Yup – all girls.
From what I can remember we got up early and took cabs to the USO office somewhere in Seoul. I jumped in with Justine and Laura.
The ride was a bit tense. We had to arrive by a certain hour and our taxi driver seemed to be taking his d*mn time with the meter running. The words “Bally joo-say-yo” were at the tip of my tongue for more than half of the trip! (Hurry please!) I let Justine and Laura speak since I had no clue where we were trying to go. I’m useless like that.
Upon exiting the cab, frustrated Laura kicked (a tree?). It’s kind of humerous looking back. Hehe – we reenacted it several times that day. 🙂
As we walked into the USO building there was an overload of foreigners standing in line. Obviously we weren’t late. Diane had organized the trip and her cab actually got there even later than ours did.
Once we’d shown our passports we were directed to the tour bus outside waiting for us. I sat next to Justine for the _?__ hour long trip up to the border. We had a delightful little Korean man as a tour guide. He knew his facts only I couldn’t understand the half of his English. Still he was certainly amusing. At one point I felt compelled to take some footage.
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