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Another week has passed in Korea (and probably elsewhere too, although we both feel so isolated from the real world since Korea is so insular and shut-off that time might have stopped for all we know).  Katherine has come back from the UK (with a treasure chest of British food in her case, much of which has already been consumed) and the public holiday's for Children's Day and Buddha's Birthday have been and gone.  The weather is boiling hot, there's nasty yellow dust storms blowing in from China and Katherine and I have both had just about enough of Korea now.  Luckily there's just over 3 months of Korea left and only 2 more months of teaching so we feel like we're on the home straight now.  We're busy planning our trips to Malaysia and Singapore and desperately trying to save a little bit of extra cash before we return to the relative poverty of the UK.

This weekend we're going to visit Lotte World (again), partly because it's one of the few decent places to go in Korea and partly (predominantly) because I had the foresight to suggest we buy annual passes when they were dirt cheap so we can now go and spend the day there without burning a hole in our wallets.  We're also going to attempt to find H&M since Kathy needs new clothes and nothing in Korea fits her since Koreans are all freakishly small and she doesn't want to face the indignity of returning to 'Bigtopia', the plus size/western size shop in Itaewon which stocks horrible, unfashionable fat people clothes.

One of the main reasons that we need to buy new clothes in the first place is because of the ever-encroaching mould and damp in our apartment.  Unfortunately this isn't an isolated incident.  The humid, nasty weather has caused a build-up of moisture everywhere to the extent that I find myself sliding along corridors at my rural schools and sleeping in a damp bed in my relatively modern apartment.  Horrible!  I thought it'd be malnutrition that would get us in Korea, or possibly the crazy Korean drivers but it looks like we'll actually die from respiratory infections.