Sunday April 25, 2010 Independence Hall

We bid a sad farewell to our first homestay families in Cheonan. We are scheduled to have three host families in Cheonan, two days at each family. Next we drove to the Independence Hall of Korea. The museum contains powerful dioramma, documents and high tech movies to depict Korea's history from 1910 to 1945. It demonstrates "a history of struggle and survival for freedom and national independence against sordid and brutal imperialism." We made the decision to break for lunch and to spend the entire day at the museum. The weather was beautiful and we walked the grounds, looking at the displays and sculpture. Patriotism was evident everywhere. In the evening, we ate dinner with our new host families and went home with them. Each of us spent family time with the parents and children of our new "homestay." We are deeply grateful for the hospitality and generosity of our host families.