Children's Day

May 5th is Children's Day Holiday and we got the day off. It was such a long day outside and I am still super exhausted from it. We all met at 9:30am at Gunsan Lake. Here we are setting off on our hike around the Lake. The hike was about 5 miles and then we had a picnic. I don't think the hike had been planned out very well and I'm not sure if anyone had actually ever hiked all the way around the lake before because most of the people ended up going about a quarter of the way and then turning back because they were too tired. Just before getting to our quarter mark resting point there was a pretty steep incline and a couple of the sisters were exhausted and seemed really put out that his hike was so hard. It was pretty funny. As we were going up this last hill I went up to Sister Che who was breathing really hard and asked her how she was doing. She does not speak hardly any English, but in her broken English she said, "I hate Sports; I never doing this." She especially seemed mad at her husband; he must have talked her into coming. Liji and I, and a few others wanted to go the whole way so we kept going to make it all the way around. It was so much fun to spend the morning with such wonderful people.

After eating lunch Liji and I headed out to the Saemangum because they just opened up the seawall road going out to the Islands nearby and they were having a Flag Festival out there. We hiked up another small mountain there and had a great few of all the Islands.

This is the Longest Sea Dike in the World.

At the Flag Festival

They had this big flag performance/dance show to bring good luck to the future of the Saemangum.

Your supposed to write down your hopes for the future on these big pieces of Paper.