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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…
It's January 19th, 2025. Since January 1st, I've been sticking to one of my New Year's resolutions: running. In the final hours of 2024, on a 15-hour flight back to Korea, I read Haruki Murakami's 'What I Talk About When I Talk About Running,' which gave me some good momentum to get started. Despite the…
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…
Bangkok, Thailand: Day One Tomorrow is the end of summer vacation and, although I say this every year, I truly cannot believe how quickly it went by. Between English camp, which ended up being two of the more stressful weeks of my entire life, and taking the GRE, the amount of days that I actually…
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. …
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 