I tried to ignore it, paint it as better than the reality, but the weather here sucks balls. I had hoped to return to Seoul with winter over, the birds chirping the arrival of some fine spring weather. But instead I got something that’s decidedly un-American, snow in late March. Yes I realize that there are lots of parts of America where it snows well into March and beyond, I was using un-American not in the sense that something does or does not relate to America but rather in the George Bush, un-American = bad, sense of the word. I feel like I didn’t sign up for March snow. I just read my contract, and there’s no mention of this travesty (although to be fair, the contract is written in Korean and I have no idea
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