Saying Goodbye Saying goodbye is something that everyone has to do a lot of in life, but still somehow feels uniquely painful. I still haven't gotten good at it, but I've gotten used to it. I said a lot of goodbyes when I left for college. Then when I started teaching English I became…
Day Trip to Gangneung // 강릉 After a very very stressful first week of English Camp, Saturday morning found me awake bright and early to catch a bus over to Bokhap terminal in Daejeon to meet a friend so that we could go on a little one day adventure up to Gangwon-do. For anyone…
My Korea Over the past two and a half years I have detailed a lot of my feelings about Korea on this blog. I am, by nature, an overly sentimental person and so looking back on my posts from when I first arrived in Korea they read as such. Overly sentimental. But the truth…
한국민속촌 // Korean Folk Village Yesterday I ventured out of Daejeon to a place I've wanted to visit for a long time. 한국민속촌 is located in Yongin, a little outside of Seoul. From Daejeon it took me about an hour and 45 minutes to arrive at 신갈 station on bus bound for 수원. And…
Spring: 벚꽃 The past few weeks we've finally gotten some warmer weather, the sun has started to show its face again, and the cherry blossoms have almost all come and gone. I don't know how I manage to nearly miss them every year but it seems like I'm always catching them at the tail…
Starting Year Three I'm back in Korea, back at my desk in the grade three teachers office at my school on top of the hill I have to climb every morning. Back to daily alerts from the government that is air quality is so bad you shouldn't go outside, and back to my tiny…
Snapshots of Seoul Whenever we get out of Daejeon and up to Seoul for a weekend the time tends to revolve around "what are we going to eat next, when can we acceptably have another cup of coffee, and when can we eat again?" Good food, or truly international food, is really the only…
Update It's been about a month since I posted anything here and I just wanted to check in and say that I'm still alive! The first year that I was in Korea every single thing I did I was doing it for the first time. It was scary and exciting and there was so…
TOPIK II Korean Exam The Korean proficiency exam, called TOPIK, is broken up into two tests. TOPIK I is the beginner one and you can score a level 1 or level 2. TOPIK II is the intermediate/advanced exam and you can score a level 3-6. I took TOPIK I in January of last year…
Story Time: My Korean Hospital Experience This is the story of the time I found myself waking up to a nurse telling me that I was having an allergic reaction in the middle of a procedure I was supposed to have slept through. In Korea. At the time it was just as horrifying as…
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