Attack!! (...just kidding)

Yesterday I witnessed my first North-Korea-Attack Drill and it was so weird. I was walking home from the store and suddenly people with flags blew whistles and walked out into the intersections so that traffic everywhere had to stop…even pedestrians weren’t allowed to cross the street. Within a matter of seconds, everything in the country came to a halt. Most people went inside somewhere or just stood still but a few of us kept walking (I can’t let a little North Korean attack stop me from getting to work on time now, can I?).

I felt like I was walking through a ghost town in a horror movie. As I walked along, almost no one else was moving. Life had completely paused. The people standing in the intersections stared at their watches and whispered occasionally but, since no one couldn’t hear them, it was completely silent. Twice I walked past stores that still had music playing inside them so the music would fade in as I got closer and then fade right back out as I walked away, just like the eerie opening scene of your typical scary movie.

After maybe ten minutes, the people in the intersections blew their whistles and went away and life in one of the most populated cities in the world went right back to normal. People came back out of wherever they had gone and started walking around again. Everyone started talking and the cars and motorcycles began to speed by. It was suddenly like North Korea had never attacked...  ;)

Anyway, another interesting experience to add to the list...