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…
Snapshots of Seoul Whenever we get out of Daejeon and up to Seoul for a weekend the time tends to revolve around "what are we going to eat next, when can we acceptably have another cup of coffee, and when can we eat again?" Good food, or truly international food, is really the only…
Update It's been about a month since I posted anything here and I just wanted to check in and say that I'm still alive! The first year that I was in Korea every single thing I did I was doing it for the first time. It was scary and exciting and there was so…
Helping Your Students Feel Comfortable Speaking English One of the biggest barriers we face as native English teachers in Korea is that it can be really hard to feel like you connect with the students in the same way that the other teachers do. Not only is there the obvious language barrier but also…
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Hours and Miles 