Getting Crazy Lost

Ok, so I already told I didn't know how to get to my school so I took a taxi. I also didn't know how to get back, however, so my co-teacher asked another Korean teacher which bus I should take because she lives by me. Now, mind you, I don't even know my address. I only know that I live my GS department store. So I'm told to take the 23-2 and it'll go by GS department store. So I go down to the bottom of the hill where 23-2 has a stop and take it going into town (I work on the outskirts) but it starts turning a different direction than I think I want to go. I assume that it loops back around because they said this bus took my to GS department store so I wait patiently. No the people in the bus start thinning out and then everyone gets out but me. I see this as an ominous sign, but not knowing what else to do, I stay on the bus. We start going through slums and tight streets and finally stop out in the middle of nowhere. The bus driver opens the door and I get out and he drive away to park next to other buses and take a break or something. Now I have no idea where I am. No map, no phone, no nothin. So I go around to the other side of the street and wait.

Another bus comes and I ask what to take to go to GS department square and he says 23-2. I figure I must have taken the bus the wrong way, but it turns out there are two routes to 23-2 so I took the completely wrong one. Anyway I get on this bus and I finally get to GS department square with the help of a friends bus driver who was trying to talk to me supposedly in English but I couldn't understand a word he said. He asked me: "we are friends?" and I said "Yes" and he got really excited, it was funny. He told me what stop to get off at which was good because the bus was so crowded I couldn't see out the windows. I finally get home and Micah isn't there because he went for a beer with the maintenance guy from his school so I just broke down and cried.

I was trying not to freak out the whole time I was on the buses so I think it was just pent up and I started hyperventilating which has never happened to me before and as you only exacerbates the situation, but Micah came home and calmed me down. You have no idea how scary it is to get lost in a place where you don't understand the strange alphabet let alone the language, you don't have a phone or anyway of contacting anyone, no one speaks English very well, and it is raining, and you don't know the address of where you live or if there are multiple GS department stores and you are going to the wrong one. It turns out there is only one GS store so that's good but it was so scary. It was one of those moments when you can't even pray you just think "God, God, God" over and over again. I was afraid I wouldn't get home that night and no way of contacting Micah or talking to anyone so I'd wonder around all night and die in a gutter. Ok that's a bit melodramatic and morbid, but these are the thoughts that were going through my head. But I am alive!! And the better for it. I've gotten lost since then, multiple times in three days, and it is still nerve racking but I have confidence that God will lead me back home so I don't have to freak out anymore. Micah has no idea, he hasn't gotten lost because he has only ever taken one bus which he was led by the hand to by his co-worker. Hopefully he'll experience it too.