Heartbreak Hotel (2/26/09)

A 4-hour bus ride from Cheonon to Busan. We stopped half way (6 busses) and had lunch in a huge room for everyone to sit together and eat Korean style. Food was okay but my foot fell asleep big time. When we got to a school in Haeundea, they called us off the bus one by one to meet our co-teacher. Neither Charlie or my co-teacher spoke English very well but they were nice and understood English better than they could speak it… I think. We loaded everything in the car and took a cab to Starbucks. This is where they told us we were going to live in a rural are the “new city” with nothing there but some houses, empty apartment buildings, and two schools. Charlie looked like a 5 year old kid that was just told that Santa doesn’t exist. We got to stay the first night in a hotel that they provided and it was super nice. After getting checked in we went for some food and decided on some American food since we were going to be in the boonies for a while. Outback Steak House was 30,000 won each (almost $30 each) so we headed to Papa Johns instead. David met up with us for dinner and then a couple of beers at the Fuzzy Navel. It was a western-style bar with some of the bar tenders doing some bottle spinning and then some with fire. They ended up doing some fire spitting also and catching the bar on fire. When we got back to the hotel I went to the bathroom and the toilet was so fancy. It had a bidday, seat warmer, and some other things. It was all in Korean so when I tried to flush the toilet I hit another button for the bidday and it shot me in the face with water. I went to bed after that feeling defeated!!!