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A while back I made a post called "Streets of Japan: Tokyo," which you can check out HERE if you'd like. Taking picture of streets while I travel and Japan are two things that I happen to love, and so these posts are always fun for me. Last weekend my sister and I went on…
역시 is a word that I've spent a lot of time trying to work out its exact meaning. Before I moved to Korea I remember asking some of my Korean friends what it means and they had a very difficult time giving a particular definition for it. And now that I live here, and I listen…
9 months in Korea. That's dangerously close to both double digits and also unbelievably close to a year that I've been here. The leaves have changed and in the past few days the weather has taken a turn for the "absolutely freezing" so I've been trying to navigate that as best I can. This…
Tai O Fishing Village was one of my favorite places that we visited during my time in Hong Kong. It was simultaneously familiar because of how comfortable I am around the water, but also unlike any place that I've ever visited. We had to take a ferry to get there and I, who can't fall…
When I arrived in Hong Kong I didn't have much by the way of expectations. I was mostly just excited to finally see my sister after 8 months. But apart from that, I didn't research too much about what to see in the city. So when my friend suggested doing Lantau Island one day, I…
The next stop on our first day in Hong Kong was the Chi Lin Nunnery. Situated in what feels like a very random place next to a shopping mall in the middle of the city, the nunnery is as peaceful as it is beautiful. It's cool to be able to see…
I made a post a few weeks ago about a lesson that I did that went surprisingly well. It was called The Oscars lesson. The activity is essentially just "write a dialog" but disguised as "we're all going to the Oscars next week and you have to present a script." And it worked shockingly well.…
I arrived in Hong Kong on a Saturday night and, after hurrying to get through security, finally got to hug my sister after 7 months apart. In some ways it has felt like 7 months because I miss my family so much. But in other ways, like how easily we fell back into step with…
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The Oscars Lesson (One matter of housekeeping before we start. I accidentally just published a post that I was still working on titled "Things my students have said to me part 2." So if you are an email subscriber, you might have received it. I've removed it from the site as it is not yet…
Evening in Naksan Park 낙산공원 Friday night, after a very long day at work, I headed up to Seoul to see a friend and get out of Daejeon for a bit. That night we got some drinks with her friends from university where I was proud to understand about 20% of the conversation going…
Hours and Miles 