Koozmacabroad: Back to Mother Korea

Well I made it back to Mokpo in one piece. However, there were times that I didn't think I would be in one piece at all. Specifically the plane ride from Beijing to Guilin, now labeled the WORST plane ride of my life. Myself and the other girls I was with were seriously frighteneing for our lives. After waiting in the Beijing airport for 10 hours (due to major fog) we finally boarded the death plane. Apparently it was safe to fly. About and hour or 2 into the flight Shannon points out to me the front seat we have to the lightening storm we are flying through. Great. Turbulance like I've never experienced before. I was waiting for that creature from that episode of the Twilight Zone to climb up to my window from the wing of the plane.

We had to make an emergency landing in a city past the one we were supposed to land in. We thought, oh good, we're on the ground. Let us off this tin can, put us up in a hotel for the night and let's fly out in the morning. Nope. Let's wait on the runway for over an hour for the "storm to pass". Yeah right! So we wait, and back up we go. This flight was even worse then the first one! We eventually made it to Guilin at around 2 in the morning to take an airport bus to some hotel only for them to say to us that they have no rooms available. Bullshit. They did and we finally got one after much discussion between the clerk and Rochelle. We asked for a cot but apparently a cot in China means an entire bed. So there we are, having a furniture rearranging party at 4 in the morning to get this bed in the room. Uhhhhhhh.

Aside from this episode, China was pretty awesome. We were very busy and saw and did a lot of cool things.

The highlights were: