I have not writte in quite awhile which is horrible, because I have had a plethora of cultural experiences lately but I am writing now, so I hope my friends will forgive me :)
As some of you may know, I recently came down with a severe case of bronchitis. I am also scheduled to take a three day trip to Busan with my husband and another couple that teaches at our school. Well that trip was put in jeopardy when I woke up Thursday morning and was still very bad off. My friend Crystal had told me about the saunas here before, but I was afraid to go because you gotta be naked in a room with a bunch of other naked women. I was like nooo that is not for me.
Well I noticed in the shower this morning, that the steam made me feel loads better and I desperately wanted to go to Busan, so I decided to suck it up and try it. I got instructions from Crystal so I would know what to do as to not stick out like a sore thumb and walked over to the gym where the sauna is.
IT WAS SO AWESOME.
When you walk in to the room where the saunas are it is a huge room. On a wall there are showers, in the corner are stations with hand held faucets and chairs. In the middle of the room are two huge in ground stone hot tubs. Then on the opposite wall of the showers are the doors to the two hot rooms.
The shower alone would have been good enough for me. In our apartment, the hot water runs out in like five minutes so you gotta be quick. Shaving your legs is a nightmare and there is also no bathtub, so that means no relaxing baths. Well I got it all in today for only 5,000 won! I took a hot shower and even got to condition my hair. Then spend time in the hot room soaking up the steam and spent about twenty minutes soaking in the hot tub. After that, I walked my basket of toiletries to the scrubbing station and exfoliated with this amazing scrubber cloth I bought at the sauna and shaved my legs! It is the best shave I have gotten since coming to Korea. Shaving in a shower that runs out of hot water so quickly is a nightmare so this was an amazing luxury.
And the naked thing was not as weird as I thought it would be somehow. Everyone just kind of minds their own business, although while in the hot room, a korean women sat down next to me and spent five minutes finding a way to tell me my white skin was beautiful lol.
The best part is it worked! I feel SO much better! So it looks like I may get to go to Busan after all and I plan on going back to the sauna tomorrow just for good measure :) Really people, Korea is awesome and you should stop by :)
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