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There are many way to tell a story. And as such there are many ways that I can talk about my life here in an attempt to give you a glimpse into what living in Asia is actually like. But no matter how much I describe my job, my students, and the feeling I get…
Day in the Life: English Camp This particular day in my life was Monday. The first day of the second week of English Camp. Week one was all grade one students and it was a breeze. There were 13 students total and only two boys. I had two of my favorite students in the entire school…
February 12th I landed in Incheon airport with my entire life stuffed into two oversized suitcases. Now those suitcases sit pushed into a corner in my utility room holding my no longer wearable winter clothes. The past five months have been both the fastest and the longest of my life. I still remember landing in…
Welcome to another update post. Since my last update we have started (and by the looks of it just about finished) the rainy season in Korea. It started very abruptly, like some flood gates had been opened two Sunday's ago and it rained for about four days straight without letting up. Since then it's been on…
I have officially completed month 4 in Korea. It has been a pretty uneventful month in terms of traveling but a rather unusual month as far as school goes. About 4 weeks ago we started speaking tests with the kids and only recently had every student officially finished. It was a behemoth of a project…
One would think that after having the same conversation with 700 students, about the same topic from the same script, I would have pretty much heard every answer there is to hear. And while yes, there is not much by the way of variety, still out of the blue some of them surprise me. There…
Continue reading ➞ Korean Middle School English Speaking Tests
(Disclaimer: This is NOT new information. I know many people choose to travel with only this lens, so this isn't exactly unique to me. But I wanted to try my hand at explaining why and maybe convince some of you to give it a try!) One of the hardest parts of traveling is figuring…
A Day in the Life of an English Middle School Teacher in South Korea Compared to recent posts from my trip to Tokyo, this is probably going to be incredibly boring. But this is reality, much more so than jetting off to Japan for the weekend. And while it's certainly not as exciting…
I love taking pictures of streets, always have. I even have an older blog post where I put together a bunch of pictures of streets from some of my various travels. (You can read that here.) But it's no secret that Japan is known for little magical alleys and streets. So here are just some…
Day two started off pretty late as we were still recovering from the very late flight over from Korea. One of my friends went to a cafe earlier in the morning and brought us back some coffee and snacks. We ate our little breakfast looking down at the street from the window in our…
Continue reading ➞ Tokyo Day 2: Imperial Palace, Asakusa, and Sensō-ji
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