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Pax // 팍스 Pax is a rather large industrial style cafe in the middle of a very typical little Korean residential area. My friend and I came here after a quick kimbap/ramen dinner to study for a while. When we arrived around 7:00 there was still hardly any one there so it was perfect…
When The Shine Wears Off This is year two for me living and working in Daejeon, Korea. So that means that, for two-thirds of my students this is their second year with me. It means that the novelty of me has worn off for most of my kids. That manifests itself in good and…
Taean Tulip Festival 태안 튤립축제 Two Saturdays ago myself and a friend found ourselves at Daejeon's main bus terminal very early with tickets to a small town on the coast called Taean. It was a long weekend for us so we figured we had to get out of Daejeon for a least one day…
Daejeon Cafe: Pangsion // 팡시온 Monday we had the day off of school and as such my loyal cafe hopping friend and I headed out to a cafe that requires a not insignificant amount of time and effort to reach. The cafe itself is out in Daecheong and by the time we arrived we'd…
April was a pretty low-key month. At the end of March I found that I'd accidentally written something closer to a short novel than a blog post about everything that happened but this month I'm here with almost nothing. In fact I don't even remember much in particular that I did, a sure sign that…
두번째하루 Last Saturday I walked out of my house into the most incredible weather we've had all year and hopped on a bus to 유천동 to meet up with a friend and visit a cafe that I've been wanting to try for a while! The cafe itself was lovely but the cafe plus the…
When you're living in a country that's so homogeneous it's people took note when the foreign population jumped from 1% to 3% it's easy to feel like you're fighting a losing battle in terms of "fitting in" with the country and culture around you. In a bizarre turn of events, one of the hardest things…
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Back with another cafe post! This time from Common Hills. This place suddenly started appearing on all over my instagram a few months ago and I've been really wanting to visit it! And yesterday for language exchange and coffee as always, I finally did. It's tucked away in Galmadong across from 은하수네거리. So…
I arrived back in Korea to start my second year here on February 27th. We had our first day of the new school year on March 2nd, and it's now been about 7 weeks back at school. And those seven weeks have, unfortunately, seen some of loneliest most anxious moments while living in Korea. I…
5 Types of Classes You'll Have as an EPIK Teacher Every class I teach has a distinct personality which is the puzzling combination of all 30 something personalities in the room. And despite the fact that often those personalities are each perfectly pleasant on their own they can sometimes combine into something truly bizarre.…
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Hours and Miles 