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weatherman · Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Location: Korea

It is nice tonight, have the window open a bit and I am enjoying the fresh (if it can be called that) air coming in. Here in Seoul it is a little cool, but down in the south of the country it is still warm. Who is keeping their window open a bit this night?

SPINOZA · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Location: $eoul

nO window open but just been to do shopping with no coat and just a t-shirt.

Perfect weather - neither cold nor warm.

VanIslander · Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 6:34 am Post subject:

Wide open baby! Cool

17 C today.

Have had nightly lows here on the island of 12 C.

Told my students it's not really spring yet (by the solar calendar) but I can't convince them of it. It's March and it's warm: it's spring! they say.

The King of Kwangju · Joined: 10 Feb 2003 Location: New York City

It gets up to 2 celcius here in Toronto and I open the window. I can't wait for winter to be over.

Weatherman, when did you leave KJ?

weatherman · Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Location: Korea

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

My first night with the window open (just a crack) was last Sunday I think. Then it got cold again, but yesterday was terrific. Even went for a walk around my local scum covered pond without a jacket.

NOTICE: Ducks were spotted flying north. Not as official as swallows in Capistrano, but it's the best I can do here.

pet lover · Joined: 02 Jan 2004 Location: not in Seoul

Don't sleep with the window open as I don't want to hear the kids screaming in the park, the boys playing basketball (thud thud thud thud), or the drunks singing/arguing/swearing/bemoaning their fate/talking at the tops of their lungs, and I don't want the fumes from the cars to get in (why oh why do people park their cars, leave the engines running, and then go to sleep), or the cigarette smoke from the drunks and the boys playing basketball. And then there is the constant stench of the cooked flesh from the meat restaurant one building over that has huge exhaust fans that suck out all their stench and spew it in my direction (yes, the fans are pointed towards my building). Blech. Really missing Seogwipo right now.

But other than all that, yeah, nice weather we've been having. Very Happy

xingyiman · Joined: 12 Jan 2006

It's been a long winter. I am happy to see the warmer weather get here at last. The winter began about 2 weeks after I arrived.

inspector gadget · Joined: 11 Apr 2003 Location: jeollanam-do in the boonies

Yup, window wide open, still couldn't get to sleep cause they comforter that was here when I came about a month ago is too warm. I need to go buy a simple sheet as a result.

Yesterday was about 13 but felt much wormer cause of the humididty, I went hiking yesterday nothing but a tshirt ond shorts to boot.

ajgeddes · Joined: 28 Apr 2004 Location: Yongsan

I live in Bundang and I haven't even had to turn my heat on all winter. Have kept a window open during the day all winter as well, and only closed it at night. That's not saying it was any warmer outside than anywhere else, but my apartment was never cold. Even left the window open when I went to Malaysia for 12 days in January came back and it wasn't cold in my apartment.

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

It was chilly inside the building this morning, but as of 2PM all the windows in the school were wide open. It's the kind of weather that makes you wish you were a PE teacher so you could be outside (when not busy writing earth-shakingly important posts like this one.)

weatherman · Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Location: Korea

She Who Is Boss told me to close the window around three last night because it was getting cold. Having the window open for a while felt good for the change of air. The south of the country must really be moving fast forward with spring. Saw that it reached the about 20 C in parts of Cholla-nam Do.

Qinella · Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Location: the crib

Aside from the couple unusually cold days we had, I've been keeping my window open almost every night for at least the past 10 days. Last week I killed my first mosquito of the year. She was dead within two seconds of flying into my room. That's the cool thing about the double windows in my apartment--single screens.

Q.

mithridates · Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 7:32 am Post subject:

I went off wandering somewhere in the evening around Apgujeong and suddenly found myself on a side road by a feeder road to a main freeway when the path ended and I was under a bridge. There was a small patch of grass maybe about the size of a regular apartment and since the path was a dead end I decided that I might as well sit down on the grass and watch the cars pass by for a little bit.

That's why I hate the winter. Any time you have to be inside or bundle up like a snowman just to go out is a bad time.

matthews_world · Joined: 15 Feb 2003

Saw my first insect of the spring, one of those small moths in a local PC Bang.

Still a little cold to be opening windows. I was freezing with them closed and the Ondol turned off last night.

Daegu has one of the highest temperatures on the peninsula today: 18C!! Shocked

Probably going to go hiking around here on a local mountain this weekend to view the blossoming forsynthia.