Many students signed up to travel to South Korea this school year, but they never expected to be strewn off course. The students left for the trip without knowing any Korean, but Mr. Grant, the teacher coordinating the student trip, said it wouldn’t be an issue. 

“Whatever, we’ll figure it out. We have Google Translate,” said Mr. Grant. 

The students left last Wednesday and one of the students posted vlogs in the airports and when they arrived. However, instead of touring South Korea when they landed in Seoul, the group’s lack of the Korean language led them in the wrong direction. Nobody noticed, including Oliver Notree (‘28).

“After the 20-hour flight spent doing the hot wing challenge with my friend in the airplane bathroom, we got to Seoul,” said Notree. “I wasn’t looking where we were going because I was about to finish a level in Block Blast.”

Another student, Amy Stake (‘25), says she thought the surroundings were weird, but she didn’t think anything of it.

“There were men with guns everywhere, but I go to public high school in America, so I’m used to that and didn’t think much of it. I saw some people, and when I tried to ask them where our group could stay for the night, they all said ‘We love Kim Jong-Un.’ I just kept going along with the group,” said Stake.

Radley R. Winkface (‘27) was along for the ride. Like many other students, no one seemed to question anything.

“I was solving my Rubiks cube when a man who introduced himself as Kim Jong Un approached our lunch table and asked us if we needed a place to stay. Well, we had been looking for a hotel for hours, so we took him up on his offer. We got to go to this guy’s house and he’s great,” said Winkface.

Two of the students were seen that day on TicTac dancing in Kim Jong Un’s estate. Though social media and worldwide news are banned in North Korea, Kim Jong-Un admitted he was a secret TicTac dancer, and the students filmed the apples dance to the CharlieXCX song with Kim. If anyone wants to find the video, Kim Jong-Un’s TicTac is @skibbidi_kimmy_j_inNK. The students and Mr. Grant are currently staying on Kim’s private estate in northern North Korea indefinitely. Sue Premacie (‘26) said they can’t leave, but they’re ok with that.

“I mean, the food is good and tomorrow we get to put Mr. Grant in a dunk tank. To think we’d want to go home to homework and democracy! Haha, never,” said Premacie.

Luckily for the students who don’t want to come home, they can’t. Stuck in communist North Korea, the next step for the students and Mr. Grant is unclear, but students did say that there is wifi to play Block Blast and listen to T. Swizzle, so they are content there. What a trip for CHS’s students!