Korean in Real life: 네(요) The next topic in my "Korean in Real Life" series is the sentence ending 네 or 네요. You may know 네 as the most commonly heard word in the Korean language, or in any language for that matter. 네 in Korean means yes. But this is not what I'm going to talk about today.…
24 Hours in Kyoto: Part 1
24 Hours in Kyoto We arrived in Osaka at about 10:25am running on Loterria burgers and roughly three hours sleep from the night before. To use the word, "exhausted" would be an understatement. I felt like a zombie. And we felt even more like zombies after the hour and a half long bus ride from…
Streets of Japan: Kyoto
A while back I made a post called "Streets of Japan: Tokyo," which you can check out HERE if you'd like. Taking picture of streets while I travel and Japan are two things that I happen to love, and so these posts are always fun for me. Last weekend my sister and I went on…
Korean in Real Life: 역시
역시 is a word that I've spent a lot of time trying to work out its exact meaning. Before I moved to Korea I remember asking some of my Korean friends what it means and they had a very difficult time giving a particular definition for it. And now that I live here, and I listen…
Korea Month 9: Feeling Good
9 months in Korea. That's dangerously close to both double digits and also unbelievably close to a year that I've been here. The leaves have changed and in the past few days the weather has taken a turn for the "absolutely freezing" so I've been trying to navigate that as best I can. This…
Hong Kong: Tai O Fishing Village
Tai O Fishing Village was one of my favorite places that we visited during my time in Hong Kong. It was simultaneously familiar because of how comfortable I am around the water, but also unlike any place that I've ever visited. We had to take a ferry to get there and I, who can't fall…
Hong Kong Vlog
I finally got this little video put together from my trip to Hong Kong a few weeks ago. Hong Kong is so unlike any other place I've visited so I had a really good time photographing it and taking these little video clips here and there. Anyway, hope you enjoy it! Thanks for stopping by!…
Teaching Middle School with EPIK
With EPIK placements for the Spring 2018 intake coming up I know that many of your are in the horrible in-between waiting period. With nothing much to do other than think about packing and study Korean, I know that I spent a lot of time just desperately trying to envision what my life was going…
Korea Month 8: Highs and Lows
This month was good one. It has been a month of seeing my sister, taking a break away from school, and then taking an even longer break at school. First there was Chuseok. We got about 10 days off and I went to Hong Kong to see my sister. It was incredible. Feel free to…
Hong Kong: Lantau Island
When I arrived in Hong Kong I didn't have much by the way of expectations. I was mostly just excited to finally see my sister after 8 months. But apart from that, I didn't research too much about what to see in the city. So when my friend suggested doing Lantau Island one day, I…









