KDM OurLittleTree: De-Militarized Zone and First Mother Meeting

June 25th,

Another hot day! Today we went and saw the De-Militarized Zone (a.k.a DMZ). At first we were going to just go through a tunnel but then our plans changed and we ended up taking a Gondola Lift up the mountain and then going through the tunnels. The Gondola Lift was kind of boring and we were just up there for a little bit but my favorite part was after that where we got to go to an observatory and look through binoculars into North Korea. After that we went to the tunnel and it was a very deep descent. It was a really long walk as well but at the bottom it finally leveled out and we walked down there for about 20 minutes. It was a really low ceiling and was technically like a cave that they hollowed out and we had to wear helmets down there just in case we bonked our heads on the low ceiling. After that we finally came up and I got a cool fan in the gift shop. Then we went back to Seoul and listened to the story of a birth mother who had to give her son up for adoption to try to help us adoptees, as well as parents of adoptees, realize what our birth mom's had to go through. It was really emotional and a bunch of people were crying which was kind of uncomfortable but it was really helpful for us at the same time. To wrap it all up we had a very fun but emotional sort of roller coster day!

-Max