'Does this Space Suit make me look Fat?'

For this week, and the following two weeks, GEC is hosting a Winter Camp for kids. It entails classes Monday through Thursday, followed by a field trip on Friday. About a third of the teaching staff gets to go on the Friday outings. I was lucky enough to be picked for this week's outing: Space Camp. I must say, I was probably more excited than the kids (and I couldn't even understand jack.

The camp in question is about an hour outside of Incheon. I don't know exactly where, but then, neither did the bus driver. We spent fifteen minutes being lost, before turning around and finding the right place. Not that the location's very obvious either; since there are no street names in Korea, it's not all that reasonable to expect any driver to find his way to some faraway amusement centre. The kids didn't get too roudy though; what do you expect, with a large flat-screen TV playing them Tom and Jerry?

Once we arrived, it was pretty fast-paced. The kids were first given a presentation on the Solar System, and its planet - including the one pictured here, on the right. That's right: Naptune. The sleepiest planet in the Solar System. After that, they were given what I assume is a presentation on the Space Race, since there were pictures of JFK and Neil Armstrong.

We were then escorted to a 3D theatre, where I watched one of the most bizzare movies i'll ever see. Obviously, I didn't understand a word of what was said, but the visuals didn't make that much sense either. There was a little boy, playing with a robot. The robot gets kidnapped. The boy is sad. The robot is now marching in the army. He gets sad, and stop (while the rest of the troops move on). There's a nuclear explosion that destroys all of the Robot Army, and knocks the robot unconscious for a hundred years. He then wakes up with a tree growing over his head. So he walks around the earth (with said tree on his head), to find the boy he was playing with (who's now an old man). When they reach each other, the earth is rejuvenated, and everything's happy again.

I.. I don't know.

After that, the kids were brought up to make some sort of constellation-necklace, while I wandered off. They had what seemed like pretty cool exhibits, so it was a shame I wasn't able to read them. Thankfully, you don't need to know Korean to admire little models of the NCC-1701.

Ohhh yeaaa.