Last Updated on March 30, 2022
That’s right! It was Super Bowl Monday around here. With a 14-hour time difference from EST to here in South Korea, annual events, like this, happen to be celebrated a tad differently. Most everyone on base had the day off of work, which was a nice, unexpected surprise. With the day off, and the game starting at 8:30AM, a Super Bowl brunch is how it’s done on this side of the world. We started with some cinnamon rolls and biscuits, followed by some Greek yogurt buffalo chicken dip. Not the worst way to start off the week.
On the other hand, Corona Virus has found its way to Gunsan – our current “hometown”. Just as we were heading into downtown Gunsan Friday night for dinner, we received alerts on our phone that a local has been diagnosed with the virus. The alert indicated areas the local had been so people could make sure to avoid them. Unfortunately, the scary thing is that symptoms don’t start to appear until around 14 days, leaving much uncertainty as to who has been exposed to the virus.
In the meantime, we’ve been doing our best to keep our distance from others and wash our hands excessively. Luckily, that’s fairly easy for me with not having a job, but not good for the hubby, who is around tons of people every day. We purchased face masks and are popping Vitamin C like it’s candy.
More importantly, I’ve been trying to stay mentally healthy, as I have the magical power of making myself sick when I think I could get sick, or when others are sick around me. Being a germaphobe is really a lose-lose situation here, as I get anxiety over germs but then the anxiety gets me sick anyway. We have a big trip coming up in a few weeks that we have been looking forward to but are stressing about with this virus going around amongst other common sicknesses. My main concern is that many airports are able to detect travelers with a fever either coming into or leaving an airport. What happens if I end up getting a fever before we leave or come back?! What if the virus spreads to where we are traveling and we are unable to get into the country or leave?! So much stress around here right now, I tell ya.
On a lighter side, what’s really been great for me recently that I’ve started doing consistently since the New Year, is morning yoga. Unfortunately, Kunsan Air Base does not offer any yoga classes, but probably a good thing since doing yoga in public would not be a pretty sight after almost 10 years off of doing gymnastics and figure skating (oh gosh, it’s already been 10 years?! I sound so old). Instead, I’ve been doing morning yoga in my jammies with Yoga with Adriene YouTube videos. She is so awesome and upbeat, that I look forward to doing this every day (sometimes twice a day!). I still do my strength training workouts throughout the week, but adding in yoga has been an awesome form of stretching, meditation, anxiety relief, and so much more!
Welp, off to do some yoga, take some Vitamin C, and wash my hands. That’s all for this week, Drifters. Stay tuned for more and please pray that we both stay healthy over here and are able to go on all of our upcoming trips! Until next time, Go Catch the Drift!
Ta ta for now, drifters!
XO,
Kylie
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