Mt Gwanaksan

Today our lecturers brought us to Gwanaksan, a mountain that is right behind our university. We gathered at 9.30am, took breakfast and started our journey up the mountain.

One thing I noticed was that different from the mountains I climbed back home in Kuching, the mountains here are rocky, we need to walk and climb over stones and rocks to go reach the top.
The scenery was indeed beautiful. From the top one can clearly see that the city of Seoul is built on a mountainous terrain. There are hills near the centre of this metropolitan city.
We took lots of picture along the path going up the mountain. When we reached a place where there's a Korean flag, we stopped there and rested. I've heard from seniors that every year the lecturers would bring them to that particular spot for group picture taking.
Waiting for the others to arrived, we chit chatted. Some of us saw a higher peak and wanted to go there, but our lecturers were not keen to go up any further (most of them were females).
When they prepared to take picture according to class, suddenly they realized that 2 person were missing. They started to worry and searched the surrounding for them.

On the other hand, two other students were on their way to the higher peak, where there is a military base. One of them had told a lecturer that he was going to the place. As they walked along, they met a Korean man who was going up as well. So they joined the man and continued the journey.
Arriving at the peak, they found out from the man that there's a temple there and quite a number of people go there to pray.
After taking photos and meeting an old Korean man who went to Malaysia years back, they wanted to go back to meet their lecturers. They talked to the man who was with them and found out that he was going down as well (at least that was what they thought the man said), so they decided to go down together.
After a while they arrived at a place with lots of people and began to queue up. Sensing something strange, they asked the man where's that place, only to find out it was a restaurant.
Wanting to go back faster, they asked the man for direction to Seoul National University (SNU), where they started the journey, and the man gave them the direction. Thus they moved on towards the direction.
Along the path, they sense that it was a wrong way, but the other travelers told them that's the way, so they continued on. Finally they arrived at the bottom, only to find that indeed it's a different entrance, but somewhere near SNU.

On the other hand, the lecturers and students were shouting out the name of the students that were missing, and wondering what could have happened to them. One of the lecturer met two men who told him they met two Malaysian students at the peak, so he went there to look. As he was searching, suddenly he got a call from a lecturer at the Language Education Centre telling him the two students were back in the centre.

So they stopped their search and came back down. By the time they reached the bottom it was about 2pm, more than an hour later that the original schedule.

And the two students? Of course they feel guilty. Later on they found out that the lecturer was just joking when she allowed them to go.