Update It's been about a month since I posted anything here and I just wanted to check in and say that I'm still alive! The first year that I was in Korea every single thing I did I was doing it for the first time. It was scary and exciting and there was so…
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
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…
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
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…
Hours and Miles 