Last winter I moved to Korea and they had the coldest winter
in 27 years. Thursday I moved to Chicago in the middle of a blizzard with the
most snow and coldest temperatures in the last 30 years. (Blizzard may or may
not be an exaggeration.) I can’t even plan the kind of misery I find myself in.
My orientation for school was scheduled to start tomorrow, but it has been
cancelled due to “inclement weather.” So I guess tomorrow I’ll just sit on my
yoga mat and eat some yogurt. It’ll be fun.
Despite the freezer like atmosphere I have been out and
about. Ya know, trying to figure this place out. I think I’m having more
culture shock here than I ever did in Seoul. A man asked me today if I shoveled
my own snow. I think that’s kind of like, do you grow your own vegetables. I
mean, it’s gotta be done, so do you do it, or does somebody do it for you.
I will never down
play the brutality of my winter in Seoul. It was cold, in every sense of the
word. And I will never get over the shocking period of time I had to wear
socks. However, it was a nice precursor to the agony I just walked into. But
the snow here. Yall. The Snow. I don’t like snow. I woke up yesterday morning
and my calves were on fire. Burning. I
know I ain’t exercised. What is wrong with me? Oh yeah! I haven’t walked on
solid ground in four days! Dumb. Just dumb.
I’m happy with the apartment. Sometimes you just don’t know
what you’re gonna get when you literally just put the address into the rented
GPS and drive to it on the first day you move in. But I don’t have too many
complaints. It’s definitely a step up from where I was. And Pedro, my
maintenance man, is nice and helpful. He did however expect me to be Chinese
when he knocked on my door Friday. Somewhere down the line I had become the
girl from China instead of the girl from Korea. No, not from either one of
those countries. Pedro did ask me if I was from Alabama. Close, but no cigar,
Pedro!
Well, hopefully after tomorrows sub zero temperatures I will
still have working appendages and be able to continue this blog.
xoxo
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