환영합니다!
After a week of cafe hopping in Seoul, another 8 days of EPIK orientation, and generally way too long living out of my two messy suitcases, I am finally settled into my new apartment! But let me back track just a little bit. About this time four days ago I was frantically preparing my lesson…
Well, we are about a week into orientation and about a week away from my first day of teaching. Which is both terrifying and exciting all at the same time. The biggest news I have is that I found out I will be teaching middle school! This is, in the same way, both terrifying…
Anyone who has a TESOL certificate knows the amazing feeling of being able to leave the country and theoretically find a job anywhere in the word. It's like your professional passport. But of course that's only the beginning. I am going to Korea in February to start teaching but I had originally planned to start…
Continue reading ➞ The Struggles of Finding a English Teaching Job Online
I made my official decision to move to Korea during Thanksgiving break of last year. This came at the end of a long internal battle between the side of me that felt like I'd be cheating on my first true love, South America, and the other side of me that increasingly knew that Korea was…
Continue reading ➞ How People Respond When I Say I’m Moving to Korea
6 months is a long time. I've been thinking a lot lately about when I became one of those "busy" people. I remember when I started university I had so much free time. I remember watching entire TV shows in a matter of weeks and hanging out in my friends dorms until the wee hours of…
As graduation draws nearer and nearer so the questions about what we will all be doing post-college grow more and more frequent. It's salt on the wounds of those people who don't know exactly what the next few years hold, it's the moment that years of work for the people who can give a solid…
Hours and Miles 