Hello, everybody, and welcome back to another monthly catch-up episode,

Culep's Community Update, I think, is what we're calling it, with Alina as my co-host here.

Alina, how's it going?

Pretty good. Thank you. How are you?

I'm doing really well, just enjoying the summer here. We've had a really back and forth summer.

I don't know. We were supposed to have a rainy season earlier in, I guess, like, June, but it never came.

We had this hot, crazy heat wave instead, and it was really, really uncomfortable throughout most of July.

And then around the end of July, like middle to end, we had this huge downpour and the rainy

season finally came. And it's just been rainy for like the last little while. But now we're

back to heatwave again. So we've had this like crazy July here in

Korea of like heat, rain, heat, and I'm in a heat period right now. So yeah, I'm staying inside with

the air conditioner pumped up. How about where you are, Alina? How's it been in Ireland?

It's pretty different. We did have a heat wave.

You know, I would put it in air quotes because that was like four days, really. And I'm only saying

heat wave because it was just so unusual for Ireland. It was like 25 degrees. And for us,

it is very hot. Because like somehow 25 feels like 30, I don't know how to explain it,

wherever we are. I'm not really a geography expert, you know, or I don't know, I don't really

know how these things work. A weather expert, yeah. Yeah, anytime I'm somewhere else and it's like

the same temperature, it feels cooler for some reason than here.

As long as the sun, of course, is shining. But it is currently raining and we've had a few days of

just like nonstop rain, very depressing weather, you know, windy as well, which makes it feel five times

as worse. It's not just like a pleasant drizzle, you know, and you're just like walking

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