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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Please Look After Mom: Book Review
I literally just finished reading the book Please Look After Mom by Kyung-sook Shin and wow, just Wow. That was such an amazing experience that I felt compelled to write about it - immediately. This book was recommended to me by my city's foreigner book club. The first …
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Published in a Korean Newspaper!
So I was randomly asked to write a piece for the school's English newspaper! I'm pretty pumped that I'm now published. Here's what I wrote: Gangnam Style: Taking the West by Storm The first time that I had ever heard Kpop was about a month…
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Korean Independence Day 2012
Unfortunately I was in India during Korean Independence Day (Which is also Indian Independence Day) so I wasn't able to celebrate it. BUT! While I was grading my students summer homework (I had them write journals) I came across this. 2012/August/15th Title: Liberation To…
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Next Big Vacation: INDIA!!
So I'm going to be MIA for the next month because I'll be spending my summer break in India with my mother and one of my best friends from home Deepika. Getting the visa to go to India was such a bitch and I ranted about that here (I was pretty angry). So yeah, here is…
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Saying Goodbye: Memory Lane
In three days 95% of my friends in Korea will be gone. Fuck. This is one of the greatest downsides to living abroad, no one stays in place. I can't even describe how much I'm going to miss these people, we all came together through the TaLK Program a year ago and I gues…
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Travel Vlog: Seoul River & The US Embassy
So I forgot to mention in the video that this river is called the Han River and runs through both North and South Korea.
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Letter to My Friends, Where Ever You May Be
Hello friend, Maybe it's been awhile since we last talked, maybe it was just last night but I'm thinking of you. We had some good times together, made some wonderful memories. I enjoy sitting back and reminiscing about you and our time together often. Sadly, right now …
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My Jeju Vacation
So I finished another session at work and got another 10 days for vacation! For this trip I met up with my good friend Ian to explore the Hawaii of Korea, Jeju Island. Now I had been to Jeju before with the TaLK program (briefly mentioned in my post Recap ) but I was on a tour …
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Korean Drinking Culture
...is pretty intense. I graduated from UC Santa Barbara aka UCSB aka University of Casual Sex & Booze. We are a known party school and pride ourselves in our ability to drink (we are also ranked 7th in the world for top universities- take that UC Berkeley!). So when I came …
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