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Story Time: Teacher's Trip to Tongyeong. Alternatively, the first time I was, within the bounds of Korean workplace culture, forced to do some embarrassing in front of my co-workers. It involved a bus full of teachers, soju, and the US national anthem. But I digress. Let me start from the beginning. So on occasion…
I'm back with another café post. I may have opened a can of worms starting to do these kind of posts, what with the sheer number of cafés I visit. But then again, what with the sheer number of cafés I visit it's a shame if I don't try to document some of them. Plus English information on…
As I try to look back on this past year in Korea and come to some sort of conclusion about things I've learned or ways I've changed, I can't seem to come up with any clear answer. I've learned a lot and certainly changed in a lot of ways, but Korea is not a complete…
This is going to be a different sort of post. Something came over me this morning suddenly I really wanted take some pictures. I realized I hadn't shot anything since my sister and I were in Kyoto. Which is a crying shame. So this morning, after a bit of a late start, I met a friend…
Continue reading ➞ Daejeon, Dunsan Cafe: Pigment Picnic (피그먼트 피크닉)
Here's a little video I put together from myself and my sister's quick trip to Kyoto. I hope you enjoy it! 24 Hours in Kyoto
We've hit double digits! This has been an absolutely packed month. Between my sister coming to Korea, our weekend trip to Japan, Thanksgiving, the first snow, signing my contract for another year in Korea, and planning my trip back to America, I've hardly had any time to process it all. But it's been a good…
(Brace yourself for a crushing wave of sentimentality. Because if you thought I could over idealize, romanticize, and just generally be way too cheesy about Korea, just wait until you hear my thoughts on my home town.) Thinking About Home The thing of "missing home" while you're living abroad is a complex and constantly…
Since pretty much day one I've known that I wanted to stay, so when we all meet at the Daejeon Metropolitan Office of Education last Wednesday to sign our new contracts, it just felt like an actualization of what I've known for a long time. But I figured now is as good a time as…
The next morning we woke up as early as we could manage and hopped on a bus towards Fushimi Inari-taisha, which if you've ever seen pictures of Kyoto, may be what you've seen. When we arrived it was as crowded as I expected it would be, but compared to places like Asakusa in Tokyo that I've visited,…
Fall in Korea was brief but lovely. I come from a state where fall means that the weather might dip below 80 degrees and we can comfortably wear jeans outside. So proper fall, where the leaves change and the weather starts to take a nosedive towards freezing, was completely new for me. It admittedly didn't…
Hours and Miles 