I was lucky enough to witness the longest solar eclipse of the century yesterday.
It partially blacked out the sun for about six minutes. Wikipedia had led me to the believe that the smog and pollution in Incheon would prevent those living in this industrial city from seeing it at all, but, as it turns out, wikipedia had led me astray again. My school passed out wax paper to the students and teachers and we were taken outside to spend a few minutes staring at the sky.
The eclipse started in India and moved east over China before it cast it shadows over Japan and South Korea; it ended in Hawaii and peaked at twenty percent. Scientists(according to the BBC) said that it was the first time in the history of the world that so many people witnessed a solar eclipse.
It was kind of surreal.
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