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…
October Update: Some Favorite Things One of my favorite things to do is listen to people talking about stuff that they love. A lot of people on the internet use these kinds of posts or videos to talk about products they love or are selling. But for this month's update post I decided to take…
September Update: Mom Comes to Korea! Brace yourselves ladies and gentlemen this is going to be a long one. September was eventful to say the least. In the beginning of the month at school I was enjoying the accidental success of a particular lesson for my grade one classes that I expected to flop…
August Update: Summer Break August was a very transitional month. We finished English camp, I got my eight days of summer vacation which I spent relaxing at home, and we started the second semester back up at school. Everyone seems to finally be falling back into their regular routines and as we do the…
Apart from celebrating my birthday and starting English Camp, July was entirely uneventful. The beginning of the month at school was all coming up with ways to entertain the students because we were effectively just babysitting them for two weeks after they finished their exams but hadn't started summer vacation yet. My birthday was the…
Continue reading ➞ July Update: English Camp and Birthday Fun
June has been a good one. I feel like last year at this time we were already well into the worst of the dead summer heat. But as of Wednesday rainy season has officially began and I still feel like we haven't gotten to the worst of the heat yet. (Except that my school still…
Continue reading ➞ June Update: Pretty Sunsets and The AC Scare
May Update: Warm Weather and Good Vibes May has been a good one. I finally feel like I'm really past that weird funk I was in at the beginning of the school year and the strangeness of starting again has worn off. I'm still as busy as ever but exhausted after a long…
April was a pretty low-key month. At the end of March I found that I'd accidentally written something closer to a short novel than a blog post about everything that happened but this month I'm here with almost nothing. In fact I don't even remember much in particular that I did, a sure sign that…
Sooooo I've accidentally written a novel again. I'll blame the fact that it was the first month of school so there were lots of new things and the fact that I've had a lot of feelings about it all. Week One March second was the first day of school. About which I…
I have been in Korea for a year. Today is the last day of school and I'm writing this from my desk as the office is descending into utter chaos while the grade three students storm in and out with questions for their home room teachers about if they're having a snack party later, what…
Hours and Miles 