By the time this is published, it will be a year since I started the physical journey to move to South Korea. On January 1st, 2021, I packed up the rest of my belonging (throwing away some things that couldn’t fit) and my cat into my Honda Civic to drive back to my parent’s houseContinue reading “Reflecting on My First Year in Korea”
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Must Have Apps for Traveling in Korea
1. Naver Maps and KakaoMaps Ditch Google maps and use Naver Maps and KakaoMaps instead for the most accurate way to get around from bus times to driving directions your set. *hint* If you can’t find something, try searching using Hangul, the Korean alphabet. 2. The COOV app and for those here long term withContinue reading “Must Have Apps for Traveling in Korea”
The Wildest 24 Hours of My Life: My First Hoesik
They told me I was going to Boseong 보성군. I did not sign up for what happened next. Since covid, the Korean Hoesik 회식 has been canceled. Hoesik is really any gathering of people to eat, get drunk, and marry; however, it has become synonymous with workplace culture in Korea. Pre-covid, you were expedited toContinue reading “The Wildest 24 Hours of My Life: My First Hoesik”
A Lasting Impression Busan Part 1
I’ve started and stopped writing this blog several times. For a city that I have been excited to visit since before I even came to Korea I’m having trouble speaking about it. There is one thing that happened on this trip that has really changed my outlook on my future here in Korea, but IContinue reading “A Lasting Impression Busan Part 1”
The Power of Slow Travel
Have you ever wondered why people keep revisiting the same place over and over again when there is a whole world to travel to? I’m not talking about a cabin in the woods where you don’t leave the place once. I’m talking about people who revisit a city or a country so many times thatContinue reading “The Power of Slow Travel”
Getting Vaccinated Abroad
Five Questions To Help Plan A Vacation During A Pandemic
Traveling during covid is unwise but with covid quickly becoming our new reality, how do we balance living life, mental health, and protecting others in our daily lives? Do we sit at home and wait it out while our mental health and emotional growth deteriorate, waiting for covid to go away? Do we do whateverContinue reading “Five Questions To Help Plan A Vacation During A Pandemic”
Xenopobia Abroad: Four Months Later
Once again, another city is calling for all foreigners to be tested after a foreign English teacher went to school knowing they had tested positive for covid. Now, there is much debate on whether or not the school made them come in before the teacher received the test results and are covering themselves or theContinue reading “Xenopobia Abroad: Four Months Later”
Xenophobia Abroad
I couldn’t point out why it bothered me so much. My second-week teaching in Korea and my province announced a mandate requiring all foreigners to get a covid test due to the rising cases. Yes, you read that right, only Foreigners have to get tested, and by rising cases, they meant forty. FORTY new infectionsContinue reading “Xenophobia Abroad”
Moving to South Korea During a Pandemic Part 3: The Flights
Well, I made it. Still no exclamation point at the end of that sentence, but there will be after The Airport and several days of recovery. The day I leave for Korea, I get to the airport thirty minutes after it opens, an hour and a half before my flight boards, and there is oneContinue reading “Moving to South Korea During a Pandemic Part 3: The Flights”
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