A Morning Walk

I thought it might be interesting to invite you to join me on my morning walk. I've brought along my camera and will take shots along the way to give you a sense of the expansiveness of Handong's amazing campus. All the buildings we will see have been constructed since 1995. Let's start with a map of the campus. My apartment is in the Mission House located in the southeast corner of the campus -- that's the far right side of the map below. (If you look close, the Mission (Nicodemus) House is designated as number 28).

As we come out of the apartment and stand on the front sidewalk, we'll turn to the right and start walking counter-clockwise around the campus (Which way did you think I would go? My name is Cordell -- "One who pulls (and walks) against the flow ;-)

The first sight that meets our eyes is Grace Hall, one of the student dormitories. We're looking due east as the sun rises behind the Hall. Oh, did I tell you -- it's about 7am, Saturday morning.
As we turn the corner and start heading up along the east side the campus drive, we can see three more student dorms -- Lothem Hall on our right, Creation Hall whose roof peak extends just beyond Lothem, and then, Shalom Hall all the way up the road in the distance. By the way, we're walking up a nice grade at this point as we head toward the highest point on campus.
Let's pause for a moment. We've made it up to the front of Shalom Hall (you may need to catch your breath). Take a look over toward the north. That's the University Chapel. It sits upon the highest point on campus.
Okay, let's walk across the drive and take the side walk along the north portion of campus. The Chapel will be to our right and the big soccer field is on the left. As we come about halfway along the north side of campus we approach the University Administration Building on our left. This sight should look a bit familiar. I took a similar picture when first here at Handong in the summer of 2004. (The older shot is the banner photo on the top of this blog -- can you catch the differences?)

As we continue our walk beyond the Admin Bldg, we come next on our left to the Computer & Engineering Building where Handong International Law School is housed on its fourth floor. This is the graduate law school where I taught during my summer stint in '04.

If we just turn a bit to the right, we get a view of the International High School on the far side of the drive. Let's walk around the corner, now and start heading back south along the west side of campus.
Upon turning the corner, we can get a great view of the new All Nations Hall. This is where the undergraduate School of Law has moved and where I have been provided a great office. Its still under construction, though, so my classes will all be conducted in the older building we just passed. When All Nations is completed later this fall, the graduate International Law School will move into the first two floors and the undergraduate School of Law will take up the entire third floor.

Several more buildings line the outside (right side) of the campus drive as we proceed down along the west end of campus. When we turn the corner to left, we're looking back east and right into the sun, so its a bit difficult for me to capture any photo's without a great deal of glare. I'll try to photograph this portion of the walk later in the day so you can get a better look. I've only shot photo's of the buildings along the campus drive. There are more buildings (Library, Student Center and others) located within the interior of campus. You can get an idea from the campus map we started with above. So now, we'll conclude our first lap around campus as we come back to the Mission House where I live.

That first lap (approx. 1/2 mile in distance) took us just a little more than 15 minutes to complete -- well, we did stop a few times along the way -- didn't we? So, are you ready for a second lap? -- maybe even three?