3월말에 이럴 수가...

"This at the end of March..."

Phew, it's been a while! Sorry for the constant slow updates T_T. What with school picking up and preparing for my presentation time has not quite been on my side! But alas, tomorrow is my presentation and I'm set so now time has cleared up...for a bit at least hehe.

On the good news side, my Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss 돌발성 난청 seems to be gone (I hope)! I'm heading to the hospital once more tomorrow to test my hearing! That's pretty much my update for these past weeks--working on my presentation while dealing with my ear issues and relaxing a lot!

As for the point of this post? How crazy Korea's weather is! It's the end of March and somehow we got struck by a snowstorm today! Around 3PM as I was heading home with my friend, snowflakes began to fall and within a few minutes the snowflakes became huge, very reminiscent of the winter. Totally had that idea of New York being colder wrong, as did all my Korean (as well as other Asian) friends here who have the idea of New York snowing all the time haha. Of course, we have snow like this in New York as well but I don't think it's very common...and I've heard that the weather is what, between 50 and 70F there? It's definitely getting warmer here, with the average around 5 degrees Celsius (that's maybe low to mid 40s or so in Fahrenheit) but not warm enough! I'm guessing we'll probably have a few weeks of spring and then the temperature will just get super hot--but I guess that's what they say about Korea--3 days of hot and 3 days of cold? Some line like that that I can't quite remember!

Not to mention, yesterday was a perfectly sunny and rather warm day, while the day before we got hit by a sandstorm from China! Now that's the first time I've experienced 황사, literally "yellow sand," which blows in from deserts in China and Mongolia. Coming from a place that's not anywhere remotely close to a desert, I couldn't even imagine what a sandstorm would look like. I heard that the sandstorm in Beijing was one of the worst lately and that the one two days ago here was also very serious. It was quite an experience to look outside my window and see the sky covered in yellow. I have to admit, when I heard the bug screen door swing open from the strong winds, I freaked out for a second, thinking someone had climbed on to my balcony haha. Although the sandstorm was not as bad as I imagined it to be (I was expecting sand in my clothes and irritating my eyes, skin, etc.) but it actually didn't really feel like much when I headed out. What I did notice though was many cars' marred with sand today. Ah, I should've taken a picture of that sand.

For now, here are pictures of the snow today!
Oh and this was just because I decided to have some fun while washing dishes.

Wish me luck tomorrow! I hope my presentation on Optical Illusions will grab my classmates' attention ^^. Also, I think it's pretty awesome that I'm able to talk about such in a powerpoint presentation. Despite the fact that I am very far from being fluent or even close to proficient at Korean, there's a nice feeling of self-satisfaction in being able to say, "hey! I explained optical illusions in a powerpoint presentation in a foreign language!" :D