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When I moved to Korea in 2017 to teach English, I had no expectations for the role that experience would play in my life. If you had told 22-year-old me, struggling to say my address to a taxi driver in Korean, that 7 years later I would be doing a Ph.D. in applied linguistics and…
This is a bad story with a happy ending. In the end, I'm writing this post from an apartment that I love, looking out over the mountains. But the process, the getting here part was bad. This is the apartment hunting in Gwangju, South Korea story. But first, a bit of context. When I lived…
Daejeon Cafe: Doodoodang / 두두당 Looks like we haven't quite seen the last of the cafe posts from my time in Daejeon. Today I'm bringing you a gorgeous cafe that's a little bit outside of the city in the Daecheongdam area. If you have a car or are willing to bus for a while…
Saying Goodbye Saying goodbye is something that everyone has to do a lot of in life, but still somehow feels uniquely painful. I still haven't gotten good at it, but I've gotten used to it. I said a lot of goodbyes when I left for college. Then when I started teaching English I became…
Day Trip to Gangneung // 강릉 After a very very stressful first week of English Camp, Saturday morning found me awake bright and early to catch a bus over to Bokhap terminal in Daejeon to meet a friend so that we could go on a little one day adventure up to Gangwon-do. For anyone…
My Korea Over the past two and a half years I have detailed a lot of my feelings about Korea on this blog. I am, by nature, an overly sentimental person and so looking back on my posts from when I first arrived in Korea they read as such. Overly sentimental. But the truth…
Daejeon Sky Park // 대전 하늘 공원 하늘 공원 is a small little park in Daedong that over looks the city. I've been wanting to go here since I moved to Daejeon two and a half years ago so I was really happy to finally get a chance to check it out. …
한국민속촌 // Korean Folk Village Yesterday I ventured out of Daejeon to a place I've wanted to visit for a long time. 한국민속촌 is located in Yongin, a little outside of Seoul. From Daejeon it took me about an hour and 45 minutes to arrive at 신갈 station on bus bound for 수원. And…
Joyful Coffee // 즐거운커피 I know it's been a while but I'm back. And I have a new favorite cafe. At this point I have visited a lot of cafes in Daejeon. But a lot of the places I visit to write about for this blog, I don't go back to. 즐거운커피, however, is…
Spring: 벚꽃 The past few weeks we've finally gotten some warmer weather, the sun has started to show its face again, and the cherry blossoms have almost all come and gone. I don't know how I manage to nearly miss them every year but it seems like I'm always catching them at the tail…
Hours and Miles 