Overseas flight, love motel and Korean BBQ

Popping my OE cherry

Okay, so I am a virgin to the whole OE (Overseas Experience) and therefore haven’t ever been on a flight longer than 6 hours.  I flew Asiana Airlines for 14 hours from Chicago to Seoul…and it was pretty flippin’ nice!  I mean, I did leave at 1am Chicago time, so I was already exhausted, but we were served some delicious Korean food about 45 min after take off.  Then I clicked through about 25 movie channels (maybe more, but after the 20′s it was older/classic movies) all available in English.  They had some new movies and a few good ones, but I had seen most of them and was tired. 

I then proceeded to sleep off and on for about 9 or 10 hours.  A little goodie travel bag was given to every passenger which contained little slippers, toothbrush and paste, eye mask and was also handed a blanket and pillow.  I was set! (even though my slippers didn’t exactly fit)  I woke up a few times to use the bathroom and for breakfast and then the final time I was awoken….was from the Asiana crew dressed up as a clown, cat and bunny all the while doing magic tricks, taking pictures and a video.  Turns out it was the airlines anniversary and they received award for being best airline of 2009.

Sweet, Sweet LOVE Motel

My director, Mr. Song picked me up from the airport and drove about 35 min. to his hagwon.  Arriving around 10 am, he informed me I would not be able to move into my apartment yet because the teacher I was replacing doesn’t leave until the next morning.  Mr. Song said he would rent me a hotel room on his dime…sweet!

So, right after he got the room and we are in the elevator up to my glorious room on the 5th floor, he says, “Koreans do NOT sleep in motels”.  This is why they are called Love Motelsbecause Koreans go there to make sweet, sweet love…or just bang some random hooker.

Walking down the dimly lit hallway by red bulbs to my luxury suite 504, I was greeted witha money box next to the door with some buttons on it.  Turnsout these sweet rooms for making love can be rented out by the hour!  Awesome!  Walked in the door into the “patio” (where Koreans take their shoes off) and was surprised with yet another box on the side of the wall in which you can insert money…for condoms this time though.  (which is weird since the room rents by the hour and in the room 2 complimentary condoms were graciously provided…) Yes, I put one on in the name of science because “supposedly” the condoms in Korea are smaller…they are…go ahead, judge me!  Ha!  You can see the happy condom machine and condoms provided in the pictures below, unopened of course

Even though the bath tub was a bit scary, no sheets being on the rock hard bed and the lingering notion that some dirty, two bit hooker might have just gotten railed an hour before I arrived…I still thought the room was pretty solid.  Slept fairly well aside from the fact I was PUMPED because the idea I was in South Korea just kind of sunk in.

Korean BBQ

It was fucking delicious!