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When I moved to Korea in 2017 to teach English, I had no expectations for the role that experience would play in my life. If you had told 22-year-old me, struggling to say my address to a taxi driver in Korean, that 7 years later I would be doing a Ph.D. in applied linguistics and…
This is a bad story with a happy ending. In the end, I'm writing this post from an apartment that I love, looking out over the mountains. But the process, the getting here part was bad. This is the apartment hunting in Gwangju, South Korea story. But first, a bit of context. When I lived…
It's January 19th, 2025. Since January 1st, I've been sticking to one of my New Year's resolutions: running. In the final hours of 2024, on a 15-hour flight back to Korea, I read Haruki Murakami's 'What I Talk About When I Talk About Running,' which gave me some good momentum to get started. Despite the…
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…
Continue reading ➞ Story Time: My Korean Hospital Experience
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
Jeju Day 3: The Sunny Day We woke up that morning to grey misty skies still unsure if we'd be able to get the beach day that we were hoping for. Where we were staying, directly in Seoguipo, it pretty much rained the entire day but as we made our way out towards Hyeopjae…
Jeju Day 2: The Rainy Day Our second day on Jeju Island was the rainy one. We woke up to light misty rain that pretty much kept up throughout the entire day. For breakfast we went to a cafe that I looked in pictures to be the "bagel cafe of dreams" (for a bagel…
K Beauty: Cosrx Products I Love If you are at all familiar with the Kbeauty or Korean vlogger community these days, chances are that you've heard a few people mention a brand called Cosrx. Last year at about this time my acne was at it's all time worst and I was determined figure out…
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…
February Update: America Welcome to the first monthly update of 2018! (Yes I missed January, sorry about that.) February was a busy month. I officially finished my first year of teaching, my third graders graduated, and I went back to America to see my family! Out of all my other friends and all their school's,…
Hours and Miles 