Lost and Found

Saturday August 28th

Nothing too exciting today....just still sick…of course. I pretty much stayed in for most of the day. I was able to sleep in so that felt really nice. Michael was planning to go into downtown Daegu to meet some other foreign teachers at the Holy Grill so I was planning on having and uneventful night in. Around 7:00pm Michael ended up coming over because he couldn’t figure out how to get to where he needed to be since none of the taxi drivers could speak English. Neither of us had eaten so we decided to walk somewhere and get some good Korean food. We made sure not to take too many turns because we would totally get lost. We walked for about 10-15 minutes into the town part of where we are and found a small restaurant along the street we were on. We the menu unfortunately didn’t have any English writing so we looked over at the table next to us and said we wanted what they were having. It was SOOOO good. It was some sort of chicken with really good sauce…so good. I couldn’t eat very much because my stomach wasn’t agreeing with me; sad times because it was really good. So we start walking only to realize that we have no idea how to get back home…every turn we made seemed as if we were going further away from where we were supposed to be going. We walked for about 30 minutes in all directions and we said if this corner is not familiar, we’ll get a taxi. Sure enough…we needed a taxi. Our co-teacher, Simon, was kind enough to write down our address in Korean earlier today just in case something like this were to happen. I haled down a cap (I felt like a New Yorker) and showed the driver the address…”I dunno” he said and drove off…WOW, we’re in trouble now. The freakin cab driver doesn’t even know where we live! Deep breaths. So we found our way back to the restaurant and carefully retraced our steps. With some patience and teamwork we found our way to some familiar streets and restaurants and we could tell we were definitely getting warmer. Thank goodness! We walked no more than 15 minutes and ended up getting lost for an hour! We seriously need to learn our way around this place and fast!