Back to the Gym!

The Dogwood festivals of Spring are approaching. I went to the gym for the first time in months today. Though it was invigorating lifting wieghts and using the equipment, I'm sure I'll be sore from head to toe tomorrow. That I can start walking to the gym again is the greatest thing ever--because this means warmer weather and more traveling! Besides the sub-tropical humidity, I didn't mind walking to the gym in Yeongyang last summer. But Winter here is a bit paralyzing.

 

 

I'm heading to Seoul again.  I'll leave tomorrow after work, and I'll be joined by friend Nina and Tori as usual. Tori will be joining us but her Korean boyfriend, and my friend, Bruce, will be joining us, too. We have another Korean couple whose friends with all of us that we'll meet as well. I'm pretty sure they'll all do a couple's thing like a double date, and they should. That's what couples do. With some time to ourselves Nina and I have been drafting up plans of what we would like to do. Nina wants to visit some cat, or, I hope preferably, dog cafes and maybe go to a club. I looked up a cigar bar in Itaewon. One place we'll definitely visit is the new Dongdaemun Design Plaza which, although it isn't the most aesthetically pleasing building in the city, it's unique!

Literally the building looks like a UFO. Funny curves and a grey color that reminds you of a dreary sky paint a picture of something alien. The mayor of Seoul himself referred to it as "an ugly sight," according to the Korea Times. The inside looks promising though. Somewhere in there there should be some shops and art galleries. Apparently there's a lot of empty space people are saying, and the city isn't quite sure what they're going to do with all of it yet. Fine by me. In the meantime, hopefully the inside reflects the hype that surrounded it's recent opening.

We'll see. 

There are no groundhogs here. We have a Corkie! He's outside  and that means Winter is over! Welcome back, Corkie. :D

 

Happy Spring!

Yours truly, 

                Evan