Today marks six months since I bid Toronto farewell and agreed to call Korea home for a year. I still remember arriving in the wee hours of the morning, being greeted by a driver who had spent hours waiting for me after I got delayed in Tokyo, staring in awe at the bright neon lights [...]
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There are plenty of aspects about life in Korea that make me chuckle, but nothing provides endless hours of entertainment quite like the classroom. Being an ESL teacher I get to hear a lot of things that don’t make a whole lot of sense. Sometimes class feels more like a game of Mad Gab than [...]
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Watching workers as they unload watermelons on the side of the road and then toss them over people’s heads on the sidewalk. Being greeted with a bow every time I walk into E-mart, and bowing awkwardly back as I mumble ‘ahn-young’. The trucks that set up shop on the side of the road to sell [...]
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One of the perks of living in Asia is that you find misspelled signs and nonsensical packaging labels to entertain you for hours on end. I’ve been snapping photos of these since my first week in Korea, so it’s about time I start sharing some of these humorous gems with you. The perfect snack for [...]
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Yesterday was my one month anniversary in South Korea! It’s hard to believe I bid Canada farewell a month ago. It feels so natural being here – more like home than my real home, which is kind of strange, but I think that’s simply because I’m doing what I wanted to be doing. What can [...]
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I went to Seoul for the first time this past Saturday. It was bitterly cold, but I enjoyed the city so much that I just had to return on Sunday. My first stop was Gyeongbokgung, of course. The Palace of Shining Happiness left me dreaming of centuries past and looking to the future; with apricot [...]
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After having flown thousands of kilometers westwards, coasted north along Alaska, crossed the Bering Strait, and veered south across the eastern tip of Siberia, I now find myself in South Korea! I’ve been here a full week, but alas, a good wi-fi connection had eluded me. I may not have made it to the capital [...]
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