Namhansanseong

Yesterday, all of the Gwangju and Hanam GEPIK teachers met for our monthly cultural experience.  We hiked in the nearby Namhansanseong Park, a fortress (mostly) built during the Joseon period (early 17th century) to provide refuge for the king.  It was used during an invasion by the Chinese in which King Injo (thank you, Wikipedia!) and about 10,000 Korean soldiers held off something like 100,000 Chinese invaders for 47 days (or something like that) until what little supplies they had brought with them ran out.  (I also heard that this was when they first started eating dog, but I don't know if that's true or not...)  Nothing too exciting happened on the trip, other than a beautiful day of hiking with Dionne and Toni and seeing several delightfully dressed old men hiking all over creation, so I'll let my photos speak for themselves :)

On a side note,  I just enjoyed watching one of my all-time favorite movies, When Harry Met Sally, of which I have been deprived since my computer crashed and burned earlier this year with WHMS forever stuck in the disk drive.  Luckily, I have fantastic pals like Miss Heather Scott to send me replacement dvds (and huge bags of peanut butter m&ms (my absolute favorite candy)) for my birthday.  It came at a good time too because I have been wanting to watch that very movie all week.  Funny how things like that work out :)