Mr. Hahn (GSE chair here) found out we had been in Gyoengju on Tuesday but had missed a critical stop so he got on his cellphone and . . . you guessed it . . . changed our schedule for Thursday!  Behind the school group above are burial mounds, dating to the late Silla era, over 1200 years ago.  The largest ones are over 40 meters in diameter and 20 meters high. The Koreans have only begun to excavate these tombs in the last 25 years or so.  What they have found is evidence of a civilization much more advanced than our European counterparts were at the time.

We kind of wonder if they had cherry blossoms in springtime back then.  We hope so for their sake!  (That’s David, Kyle, Jess, and our new best friend and interpreter Li Cheong-Min, a.k.a. Min, above.)