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[dedalusj]

I came to 서울 this weekend to go Christmas shopping and get something for the baby my brother and his wife are expecting in March.  Yesterday ㅈ's friend called and asked if we wanted to go skiing.  It was opening weekend so tickets were half-price and there were buses that were taking people at reduced prices.  Despite the ball-shrinking cold of -10

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[jewelsdelphina]

Wheee, that sounds like fun and I'm glad she surprised you. Being in a relationship should be full of good surprises like that, it helps keep things fun!

[pisica_habibi]

Sweet! I'm glad she had fun and did so well! (Though for some reason, it doesn't surprised that she did well...she's just cool like that!)

[squishibananas]

Speaking of things Koreans can’t do, swimming is another. I can’t ski (never even tried, never saw snow before I came here), but I think I can understand what you mean about just “knowing” how to do something. I found out yesterday when my kids asked me if I could swim that hardly any of them could. I don’t think I know anyone in Oz who can’t swim… even inlanders.

I’ve also remembered why I hated this cold weather from last time I was here in Christmas last year - living in QLD, ignorant of this thing called “a real winter” - that I have a higher-than-the-average-korean body temperature. Friends walk in my small one room apartment and their glasses fog up XD. Give me blazing heat any day of the week.

[dedalusj]

I too cannot believe so many Koreans cannot swim. Right before we went to Thailand 여친 took classes to learn to swim. I grew up swimming and when I was in 10 grade (I think they call it grade 10 Down Under) you had to swim to pass gym. It fact you also had to be able to get into and out of a kayak, both on the water and under it, you had to be able to roll the kayak and paddle it and you had to be able to retrieve a mask and snorkel from 12 feet down, put them on and clear them underwater. I grew up at an altitude of 5200 feet, 1200 miles from the ocean.

I have a higher-than-the-average-korean body temperature

I cannot imagine how hot (temperature hot, not sexy hot, or maybe sexy hot, 어쨌든...) that would be. in the summer 여친 sleeps under a blanket. I walk into a Korean apartment and worry about heat stroke and you apartment is hotter than THAT?! Between 60 and 70 degrees F is where I like things but cold doesn't really bother me too much (even though I did almost die of hypothermia once.)