Let's be honest: No one likes the cold. Not unless, of course, you are from Canada. It's not pleasant. Your skin dries and cracks up. You look pale and sickly. All you want to do is cuddle under thick warm blankets. Forget the outside world, you are hibernating for the winter. Then, you pack on the pounds and hide it under layers of sweaters and scarves, then promise yourself you will get to the gym come April.
This is my excuse for not blogging. For the past month, I've basically been in hiding from the tundra that is Seoul right now. I'm pale, I'm a little overweight, and I'm really, really cold. It's no colder than St. Louis though. I am at about the same parallel (just south of the 38th parallel) and in the same climate type - temperate. I'm really kicking myself in the a** for not choosing a warmer place like I had intended. Last winter, I kept telling myself that I was going to escape winter this time around and move to Central/South America. Sadly, I made my travel plans in August, where summer's heat tricked me into believing that winter wouldn't be so bad--some relief from this sticky, humid air, even. And now that it's here, all I want is for the summer to come back to me.
In conclusion, if you need to find me, I'll be curled up on my ondol floors*, sleeping like a grizzly.
xx
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*Note: Ondol floors: Korean-style heating system where pipes running hot water under the floors heats the entire apartment
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