Home at last

or back in Korea, well Gwangju, Korea, in my apartment. Got up at 7:05am (not a good time of the day). If you have read Kat's blog you will know, that she mistakenly gave me to wrong amount of money for my flight, and when she realised this she called my taxi driver and we had to go back and get more. Then my flight to Taipei from Kinmen was delayed for half an hour, but we made good time anyway. So, got my bags pretty quick, like only 10 minutes after getting off the plane, possibly less, then basically walked out of the airport and onto a bus to CKS, which departed immediately (one of the 2 lucky things that occurred for me today). The second lucky thing was arriving at CKS and not having to wait to check my luggage, plus my 2 bags weighed exactly 20kg ( a total miracle).
Then, I called Kat to tell her that I had made it okay and say goodbye. Spent the last of my money at BK (breakfast/lunch at 11am) and on souveniers for myself, and phone charms to take home as gifts.
Caught my flight, no problems there, landed slightly early, made the mistake of choosing the slowest line possible at the immigration check point, and finding out that I no longer needed to fill in arrival or departure cards for Korea since I am a resident ( a very recent law change that will never again affect me). Grabbed my bags, made it through declarations without any problems. Headed to buy a bus ticket, only to find the next bus completely sold out and had to wait and hour and three quarters for the next one. So, found a comfortable seat to sit and read for that time. A Jehovah's Witness attempted to bug me, but I just ignored her, so eventually she went away.
Got on the bus at 5.50, fell asleep almost immediately, then Mum called, talked to her for a bit, discussing my aunts insanity for taking her son with her while visiting my mother, oh, and the bus almost crashed, fun day huh! But wait there's more, huge traffic jam going past Seoul took more than an hour to just get past Seoul, bloody people leaving the city for the weeked, note to self, don't take buses near Seoul after 6pm on Fridays.
Got to the bus terminal in Gwangju at around 10.20, got myself at taxi, unfortunately I also got myself a taxi driver who didn't understand my Korean, happens from time to time, I told him I wanted to go to OH IL PAL (5 1 8), like 5 times, eventually I wrote it down, and he was like "oh, OH IL PAL", which is what I thought I had said. So, we got me home with me saying left hand and right hand in Korean when I wanted him to turn, and he actually knew left and right as well, a nice change.
So, here I am, home after a very eventful trip I must say, so now I have the weekend to recover before I ahve to go back to work on Monday. Washing is done and I'm mostly unpacked. I am so going to sleep now!