Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Well today was the DMZ, Demilitarized Zone that separates North from South Korea at the 38th parallel. We scheduled to take a tour of the DMZ but it was changed. We ended up taking a tour of the 3rd tunnel, a tunnel secretly built by the North Koreans to South Korea under the DMZ. Well just my luck inside the tunnel is a no picture zone. Well I never follow those rules so I tucked my camera under my jacket and got on the train to go down. Well, we are in the tunnel and we walked about a quarter of a mile to the North Korean line between North and South. As ussually I started snappin away at the tunnel. I had never seen pictures because its not allowed so I was excited. When we got out we were taken to the top of a mountain ish as an overlook into North Korea. Here there was a line where you could take pictures from and guards watching to make sure you do so. Well as usuall I never do and secretly took pictures everywhere around the lookout. As I was leaving I was stopped by a Korean soldier who asked me to come inside. Inside he asked to see the pictures I had taken during the day... I got busted. He went through and deleted about one hundred or so pictures that I shouldnt have taken. I played the "I dont speak Korean" card. He wasnt an idiot but told me to just pay attention to the signs. I thought it was funny but I was very mad at the same time. SO todays pictures were a reacord low of 100. I was furious when I looked at my pictures for the day. It was still an awesome experience to be able to step foot inside North Korea. Afterwards we drove home and I took a nap. After dinner I was escorted to Master Bang's (my Tae Kwon Do master whose family I am staying with) Tae Kwon Do school. Afterwards we spent about an hour looking at pictures of Greenville and stuff. Tommorrow I am going to the American Embassy and am training in the Tae Kwon do school at five. It will be very interesting and intense. I come home on Thursday so almost there.

Andrew
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