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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…
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What Korean Middle School Students Are Worried About (Or: What my kids wanted to tell me when they had 2 minutes of my undivided attention.) I'm just about finished with all of the speaking tests for this semester and as always it's been the most fun I've had with my students so far this…
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Why I Moved Abroad When I was 17 I stood in the doorway to St. Peters Basilica and cried. At the time I was just overwhelmed by how beautiful and huge it was. But looking back, I think it was because I was experiencing for the first time the comforting, overpowering realization of how…
Hachi Cafe // 하치카페 Hachi Cafe is a Japanese style cafe located in Galmadong which is honestly one of my favorite underrated neighborhoods in Daejeon. It's very small, quiet, and residential but there are a lot of these pretty little cafe's all over the place! It's also in a very easy walking distance…
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…
Pax // 팍스 Pax is a rather large industrial style cafe in the middle of a very typical little Korean residential area. My friend and I came here after a quick kimbap/ramen dinner to study for a while. When we arrived around 7:00 there was still hardly any one there so it was perfect…
When The Shine Wears Off This is year two for me living and working in Daejeon, Korea. So that means that, for two-thirds of my students this is their second year with me. It means that the novelty of me has worn off for most of my kids. That manifests itself in good and…
Taean Tulip Festival 태안 튤립축제 Two Saturdays ago myself and a friend found ourselves at Daejeon's main bus terminal very early with tickets to a small town on the coast called Taean. It was a long weekend for us so we figured we had to get out of Daejeon for a least one day…
Daejeon Cafe: Pangsion // 팡시온 Monday we had the day off of school and as such my loyal cafe hopping friend and I headed out to a cafe that requires a not insignificant amount of time and effort to reach. The cafe itself is out in Daecheong and by the time we arrived we'd…
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…
Hours and Miles 