Hot & Sticky

Soo... we went climbing tonight like we usually do, only when we got there, we found our basement climbing gym had been turned into a sauna. Okay, not really, but it was so stinkin' hot and humid down there that the floor and walls (where there wasn't plywood) were wet. Over the past week, South Korea has turned into a humidor for stinky, fishy things. When the new batch of kids came into the auditorium this morning, I noticed that many of the boys already smelled and there hair was slightly matted from sweat. They were unusually smelly for a Monday. Stench that doesn't normally waft until about Thursday after no showering most of the week. And anyone who tells you that Koreans don't sweat is a liar. In this hot, humid weather, it seems impossible to walk out your front door without feeling the perspiration. And in Korea, they don't seem to believe in or understand the necessity of deodorant. But lucky for us, our parents have stocked us up for the next 2-5 years with a shipment of deodorant and toothpaste (their toothpaste doesn't have fluoride in it). So this means that as teachers, we'll be the sweet smelling roses in the midst of the swamp pits--that is, swampy children's arm pits.

But, alas, the good news is that there is a local shop that sells ice cream at 50% off throughout the summer, which just so happens to be on the walk on our way home from the climbing gym. So after our swampy climbing experience, we cooled off our innards with some delectable sweetness.