Living Between Worlds
I'm back home, in my bed. Wait what? For most people this statement is easy to understand. They only have one home, and one bed. When I say it it's just confusing. Are you in LA? Surrounded by loved ones and family, living off a multitude of different kinds of food. Or …
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Visiting Home: My Thoughts on Los Angeles
I love my city. I mean truly. A lot of people bitch about LA saying the traffic is bad and everything is too far away (which is true) but there is such color and such depth to my city that is making my heart want to burst right now. First of all you can get anything you can i…
Read moreHoola Card Game (No Thank Yous)
This was a class project for my adult students. Can you learn house to play this Korean card game from their instructions? HOOLA card game 1. Start with 3 to 5 players. Please deal each person 7 cards clock-wise. 2. Place the rest of the deck in the middle and play the…
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How to Play Hoola Game (with Thank You's)
Always teaching out of the book gets boring and so I created this project for two of my classes to work on for the past few days. What they had to do was teach me a Korean card game and then write out the rules to the card game. Now here is the test. I would like you (my read…
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Thanksgiving in Korea
When you choose a life of adventures no on tells you how lonely it can be. This is my second Thanksgiving away from home and my first without any loved ones. I didn't think it would be this hard to deal with. On Wednesday I just figured Thanksgiving would be a day like an…
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Young Gun, Intro
Hello world. Nice to be sharing thoughts with ya 'll. I am called Young Gun and I have been introduced to this blog by my beloved friend Ashley. As this was a blog about thoughts and experiences living in South Korea, I vouched myself to share my relatively dense experienc…
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Should I Stay or Should I Go?
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! My school contract ends in February and I seriously need to figure out what to do with my life. Should I stay in Korea and focus on my life here or should I leave/go home and, you know, start a career and such? My mother is a Strategist by trade and is curre…
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Five (7) Words You Need to Know When Visiting Korea
So my mother is coming to Korea on Saturday for a little more than three weeks (guess who is super excited?!) and only knows two words in Korean. I made this video for her. Mom you already know: Hello - 안녕하세요 - An-young-ha-se-yo Thank you - 감사합니다 - Kam-sa-ni-da In th…
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Prom in South Korea
The “Just say yes” philosophy gets me into all sorts of trouble/fun. Two weeks ago I was asked by a guy I had met in passing once to go to prom. He had a girlfriend but she was working that night and he didn’t want to go without a date. When I met him he seemed like a nice gu…
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