I'm off to Japan tomorrow. This will probably be my last trip to Japan for awhile, since I'm planning to go home in March. I've tried to fill it with as much things I haven't done or things I really want to do again, as possible. A nice mix of old and new. (However I'll [...]
Teacher's Day in Korea is on May 15th. Every year my school does something different. My first year in Korea the students made cheesecake and brought them out to teachers. The second year our principle decided it'd be fun to have a teachers version of sports day. This year the sports day was swapped out [...]
I've dragged myself out of my hibernation that started nearly as soon as I boarded my plane until I got home yesterday to write this (still at my temporary housing without wifi) and do some errands before the Korean New Year closes everything. I learned very very fast on my trip that I was vastly [...]
There aren't as many holidays this year so when I saw a 5 day weekend I jumped to plan a trip. Due to Children's day we got Thursday off and then Friday and Monday as well. So I got in touch with my friend whose studying Japanese at a University in Kyoto to see if [...]
Misadventures on my way to Bangkok. Sad dinners, hitchhiking, and kind strangers.
2015 has come and gone in the blink of an eye. Cliche, yes, but when the year is over it tends to seem as if it went by fast, especially if you moved over 6,526 miles away from home. Last January I was busy doing interviews and paperwork and just a tense ball of [...]
At the end of the semester before summer classes started my coteacher told me that we would all be heading out to an island for teacher training. I didn't have a clue what this would be like and was extremely nervous. There is training for foreign teachers in South Korea but I got here too [...]
So that last couple of weekends have been filled with parties and I've taken this weekend off to recover. The first event/party I went to was Seoultube. I went with a youtuber friend of mine. It was originally suppose to be in a park, but due to the rain it got moved to the Hidden [...]
