Arrival

Monday evening
Another crazy journey. I just arrived to my final destination for the day. We spent 11 hours traveling along the Eastern Coast. We stopped at the 38th parallel and then continued north of there. After the Korean War, territory north of the parallel was acquired. Paul (the head of the International school) was also a naval commander. We ended up stopping by his last duty station. The students went and listened to a presentation while I went with Paul and the current commander.
This is the northern most military post of South Korea and I was on my way to having tea with the commander in his office. Actually, he had coffee and I had tea. He showed us his computer screen which had the real-time position of all North and South Korean ships. The North Korean military and fishing ships were of course marked in red.
From there, we proceeded north to the demilitarized zone where we could see North Korea and further off were North Korean military posts.
Now we are at a cabin that we rented for the night and the students are cooking us dinner. Half of them have a cold. It’s only a matter of time. They never cover their mouth! That’s the life of a teacher I guess. For the rest of the night, I will probably be staring at the wall while everyone will talk in Korean.