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Patio Seven (파티오세븐) If you've been around this blog for any amount of time chances are you've seen photos of this cafe before. This is my favorite rooftop spot in Daejeon and we go there a lot. It's called Seven Factory Moment and I'm planning to do a proper post on it…
One of the major perks of teaching middle school are the multitude of ridiculous things that I get to hear on a daily basis. Whether it's something clever and witty from a high level student, something bold from a kid who's inflated ego has managed to disregard the fact that they can't put together a…
Continue reading ➞ Things My Students Have Said to Me: Part 2
I'm back with another cafe post! This time from Church and Dancehall cafe. Address: 대전 중구 대흥로139번길 38 1층 I've wanted to visit this cafe for a while now so today right after I finished English camp I met my friend at the bus stop in front of my school and we made the rather…
Continue reading ➞ Daejeon Cafe: Church and Dancehall (처치앤댄스홀)
As I try to look back on this past year in Korea and come to some sort of conclusion about things I've learned or ways I've changed, I can't seem to come up with any clear answer. I've learned a lot and certainly changed in a lot of ways, but Korea is not a complete…
Here's a little video I put together from myself and my sister's quick trip to Kyoto. I hope you enjoy it! 24 Hours in Kyoto
We've hit double digits! This has been an absolutely packed month. Between my sister coming to Korea, our weekend trip to Japan, Thanksgiving, the first snow, signing my contract for another year in Korea, and planning my trip back to America, I've hardly had any time to process it all. But it's been a good…
(Brace yourself for a crushing wave of sentimentality. Because if you thought I could over idealize, romanticize, and just generally be way too cheesy about Korea, just wait until you hear my thoughts on my home town.) Thinking About Home The thing of "missing home" while you're living abroad is a complex and constantly…
The next morning we woke up as early as we could manage and hopped on a bus towards Fushimi Inari-taisha, which if you've ever seen pictures of Kyoto, may be what you've seen. When we arrived it was as crowded as I expected it would be, but compared to places like Asakusa in Tokyo that I've visited,…
Fall in Korea was brief but lovely. I come from a state where fall means that the weather might dip below 80 degrees and we can comfortably wear jeans outside. So proper fall, where the leaves change and the weather starts to take a nosedive towards freezing, was completely new for me. It admittedly didn't…
24 Hours in Kyoto We arrived in Osaka at about 10:25am running on Loterria burgers and roughly three hours sleep from the night before. To use the word, "exhausted" would be an understatement. I felt like a zombie. And we felt even more like zombies after the hour and a half long bus ride from…
Hours and Miles 