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…
Tag: Writing
(Almost) 10 Years Later
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…

