Getting Home

My ferry back to Korea was set to leave at 2:30pm on Sunday afternoon. I left the hotel with plenty of time to make it. The streets were packed and traffic wasn't moving. I knew of one bus that would take me to the port, but I couldn't just sit there and wait forever. I found a bus that said port on it and I took it. Bad idea. This took me the opposite way and I didn't know where I was. I took the subway and arrived at Hakata Station. The ferry terminal is called Hakata Terminal but, apparently, the terminal and subway station have no relation and are nowhere near eachother. Now time was getting slim. I hailed a taxi, showed him my ticket and the time and he understood my panic. He tried the best he could but the weather was horrible, police had a necessary street blocked off, and I arrived at the station late. They told me I would have to leave the following morning at 9am.
I didn't have much money left and was tired. I wanted to get back to my students, but it wasn't happening. I met back up with Bart and we spent a cheap, uneventful Sunday evening. We ate Wendys, again, checked out the malls, and watched a movie at a DVD bong. They cost 14$ in Korea but it was 40$ in Japan. Ouch. We played air hockey, grabbed a couple beers and went to the hotel to just relax inside for the night. We found the Koreans up in the lobby and assembled a group of 4 to hang out with us, drink and talk a bit. We talked until 3am with very, very little use of English. It was empowering and it made me want to get back to Korea, where I can function.
I slept for 3 hours and was at the terminal with hours to spare until the ferry left. It was snowing and windy and the ferry was canceled. This meant I had to wait for 6 hours just for an annoucement as to whether the 2:30 ferry would go. It did, I waited forever, traveled 3 hours on the ferry, 3 hours in a bus and was finally home in Korea at around 9pm Monday night. Not a vacation, but an action-packed trip. I went to sleep without the time to truly think about all that had occurred.