환영합니다!
Why I Love Living in Daejeon, Korea (And why I'm glad I DON'T live in Seoul.) I officially got my Daejeon placement from EPIK on December 14, 2016. My immediate reaction was to start frantically searching for cool cafe's and restaurants and try to figure out where in the city I was hoping to…
Dear New EPIK Teachers, I think a lot of you will be walking into your schools to work for the first time on Monday. It wasn't all that long ago that I did the same exact thing and to be perfectly honest I'll be walking into school again on Monday with my own set or…
Jeju Video Sorry I haven't been writing a lot lately but here's something that's actually from a while ago which I never got around to posting! This is just a little video I threw together from my trip to Jeju in July! Hope you enjoy!
Daejeon Cafe: Lune H // 륀에이치 When I moved to Daejeon about a year and a half ago the first thing I did was to search for pretty cafe's where I could go to study. I remember how hard it was to search for things in Korean and also the feeling of success…
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…
Jeju Day 1: Travel and Vadada Cafe Known to many as the "Hawaii of Korea" Jeju is a volcanic island of the southern coast of the Korean peninsula and many people's go-to vacation spot due to its beautiful scenery and relative ease of access. I recently had three days off of work while my kids…
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
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…
Continue reading ➞ What Korean Middle School Students Are Worried About
Hours and Miles 