On our last weekend in Bona Ranah and I decided to get away from paradise to more paradise one last time while all we needed was a purse and a toothbrush. With little to no full plan for what we would be doing, we left everything we needed at home… including the toothbrush. Oh well!…
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Settling into Bona
Ranah, Jen, and I have had a whirlwind of a trip for the last 85 days. We’ve explored as much of the Philippines as we could in 27 days, ventured into Malaysian Borneo, and had a wonderful “vacation from our vacation” in Bali and on the Gili Islands in Lombok. Now, though, Ranah and I…
Seollal Japan Trip: Tokyo (Feb. 6-8)
Every year in February, Koreans celebrate the Lunar New Year, or Seollal. For me and my coworkers, this meant a 5 day weekend. For my Seollal long weekend, I decided to splurge a bit and visit my friend, Hiroko, who is working in Tokyo. Luckily for me, this made for an amazing 5 days. For…
Seollal Japan Trip: The Journey to Tokyo (Feb 5-6)
Every year in February, Koreans celebrate the Lunar New Year, or Seollal. For me and my coworkers, this meant a 5 day weekend. For my Seollal long weekend, I decided to splurge a bit and visit my friend, Hiroko, who is working in Tokyo. Luckily for me, this made for an amazing 5 days. For…
Jinju Lantern Festival and Haedong Yonggungsa: Sept. 30 to Oct. 18
Since I last wrote an article on my adventures in Busan, I’ve only done a few exciting things, but they’ve been very pretty things. Included are both the Jinju Lantern Festival and Haedong Yonggungsa Temple. So, this week, behold a feast for the eyes!
Chuseok in Seoul: Sept. 26 to 29
Each year, Koreans celebrate Chuseok. Chuseok and the Lunar New Year are the two most important holidays in the Korean year. During Chuseok, Koreans honour their ancestors by cleaning their graves, and celebrate the fast by laying out a special table. Women cook, men pray and drink, generally. For this holiday, the whole country has…
Fun Times and Sicky Days: Sept. 5-23
So these past two weeks can be summed up as a strange combination of fun and interesting Busan experiences, and a lot of time hanging out in my house not doing very much because I’ve been feeling under the weather, on and off. In case you were wondering, right now that feeling is very much on.
The Week of Quite a Lot of Pizza
So, my first full week in Korea just happened. It seems crazy to think that I’m only 12 days deep. I think if you’re imagining what my first week looked like, you can picture that every time I was on social media, it was right here, at the Jasmin Café.
TL;DR: I’m fine, how are you?
I took the leap, I did it. Despite everything — and everything was more than I would have ever imagined it would have been this time last year — I booked my flight and actually got on the plane to make a journey to a country halfway around the world to teach my language to…
The Goin' 