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 …
Read moreI 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 moreThis 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…
Read moreAlways 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…
Read moreWhen 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…
Read moreHello 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…
Read moreAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! 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…
Read moreSo 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…
Read moreThe “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…
Read moreI 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 …
Read moreSo 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…
Read moreUnfortunately 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…
Read moreSo 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…
Read moreIn 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…
Read moreSo I forgot to mention in the video that this river is called the Han River and runs through both North and South Korea.
Read moreHello 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 …
Read moreSo 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 …
Read more...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 …
Read moreI get messaged on a regular basis from all sorts of people looking for information about teaching in South Korea so I have decided to compile everything I got into a blog post for people's reference (also so I don't have to type the same thing over and over and over agai…
Read moreWhat a CRAZY weekend! Not sure where to start so I'm going to just start typing and see where it takes me. Friday night my two best friends (Monica and Deanne) and I went to Atown and got plastered. Monica didn't feel like drinking and Deanne is a super lightweight so…
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