today felt like april in montreal. like that first really nice day of spring, where you go find a terrace to sit and have a beer on. only, it's not april, it's february; and i'm not in montreal, i'm in gimhae; and there are no terraces here, or people to have beer with in the middle of the afternoon. oh well. i think that was more of a 'university days' thing too... ? maybe, or maybe it's a montreal thing... but i digress.
it was a beautiful day today. the sun was shining and you could smell spring in the air. in montreal that would mean the smell of a winters' worth of accumulated dog feces, but in korea, it just means the air was fresh... mostly. i decided it would be a terrible waste to spend the afternoon holed up in my little room, so i headed up to the roof for some sun. (yes, i have an easily accessible roof, which is at my disposal - yay!) so i got a book (two actually since i was about to finish one), a bottle of water, and a blanket to sit on, and walked up one flight of stairs.
since the last time i was up there someone has strung up a clothes line (probably the evil couple upstairs from me, who, by the way, seem to think the entire hallway above their apartment belongs to them for keeping their trash! hmph.) anyway, there were no clothes, so i had a nice big roof all to myself. i sat on the blanket with my back up against the wall, and started to read, when out of nowhere a whiff of the most rotten and foul odour hit my nose like i was in a waste treatment facility. then i remembered that the last time i was up there it was stinky too. so much for hanging out on the roof - but my big question is, why would anyone want to hang their clothes to dry anywhere near the stench?
i was up there long enough to take these pictures, enjoy!
the mountains in the distance - really not that far, they're the ones i hike...
keep going and you'll get to the south sea and then the pacific...hopefully i can discover the source of the stench and quash it. (ooh, lots of big words today...)
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