What did you do at work today? Yesterday, Mel and I travelled with our fellow teachers to Hwaseong Fortress, the pride and joy of Suwon. The fortress was, at one point, a wall around the whole city that was built to honor the father of the King in an attempt to move the capitol of Korea from Seoul to Suwon. It was a place for citizens to hide if there were attacks, but it was a defensive fortress with a floodgate, four secret gates, four guard platforms, two observation towers, two command posts, two archer's platforms, five firearms bastions, and so on. It looks really old but it was actually built between 1794-1796 and it's just under 6km in length. We'll be teaching a 'History of Suwon' class at our school so this trip gave us some background on the history of the city and an easy shift at work. We also discovered a big market outside one of the gates which had a 3-story Daiso!! Daiso is a kick-ass dollar store (1000 won shop) that we are definately going back to raid.
We climbed some really tall stairs but were rewarded with an awesome view.
The wall, in all it's glory
The gang at one of the many things that looked like this along the way.
Were we allowed to sit on the wall? That church in the background was huge. The biggest, blackest, scariest church I've ever seen. Almost as scary as those pants. What was I thinking...
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