strolling

On Wednesday evening I ventured to find a keopi shope (Konglish accent on coffee shop) during my break in a temporary English gig. I just finished eating traditional Korean porridge so I was full.

On my walking adventure I found a really nice area of Incheon near its City Hall Station. It had been quite rainy all day and dreadfully cloudy. But as the rain lifted I turned a corner and found an area full of sunshine. It was quite remarkable. It was a ritzy area of high rise apartments. And it wasn't so much that the apartments were fascinating in themselves but the sun reflected off the windows so beautifully. Vines were wrapped around the fancy gates bordering the complex. The bridge across a road passing through the community was quite like in a fairy tale as I saw a woman pushing her stroller across it. And the art on the walls that supported underneath the bridge were colorful and vibrant. The landscaping included a variety of unique plants. I thought there was a young tree from every country. The sky was a clear blue behind and above each sky rise structure. I kept glaring above and all around me thinking in the back of my mind that if anyone saw me I would have looked like a kid on their first visit to Willy Wonka's factory.

In short, my coffee run turned into a nice late-afternoon leisurely stroll in the sunshine of another world.