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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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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