Bears Tourist Chuncheon

Things have been busy as ever! Trying to maintain a balance between teaching, running, yoga, alone time and social time. Things at work have been insane- it is such a joke anymore that all I can do is laugh. Only a few months left....

My dear friend and her husband left Seoul and moved back to the States this week :( I will certainly miss our weekly conversations shared over delicious vegetarian meals and wine. It is serendipitous that ...

August wheeled around, the final month of my contract, a time for the hopeless sentimentalist in me to start noting the last everything; the last day of school, the last bus ride, the last ****** cafeteria meal. I said my last farewells over and over again to the teachers, students and friends, often to the same person again and again. There was also time for firsts, for new experiences and experimentations too though. I spent a week teaching an English-only summer camp to the best of ...

still in seoul. just passing the time eating delicious foods and enjoying the remarkable weather. its actually been raining on and off since we've been here. more off than on. the awesome thing is that its not the typical humid, hot, sticky sort of rain they are used to this time of year. rather its a nice, breezy "autumn is on the way" sort of rain. the temperature has dropped considerably... maybe even by like 15 degrees or so. well, it seems ...

[note: this is extremely outdated.] ok, so this post is a little bit overdue.. but i have been busy taking Korean, going to workshops on Korean culture and teaching, hitting up my birth city, etc. pretty standard life events, right? anyway, after one last cheesesteak and ...

So, I'm now in my fourth week of orientation in Chuncheon, South Korea. The orientation program has been a little taxing at times, but I really think that it has been extremely helpful in adjusting to life here, and I feel so fortunate that I wasn't just thrown into a year in Korea without any preparation or experience. We've been going to loads of cultural and teaching workshops, adjusting to daily life in ...

I've been to Korea National Arboretum. It took 30 min from my hometown. It's rainy season in Korea and it made all plants looks more green. There are not ...

Spent the weekend hiking in and around Chuncheon, which is famous for a spicy chicken dish cooked on your table; it is so good, Aaron and I had it for lunch, dinner and the following days lunch. There is a back alley in the market area about a hundred yards long with over forty spicy chicken restaurants - we selected the busiest ones figuring the locals know where to eat. The city has a couple of huge army bases (as do all the northern cities ...

Well its finally happened to us, well troy at least. After a long flight from Chicago, IL to Tokyo, Japan to Seoul, South Korea we lost a piece of luggage. Only one piece that is-Troy's bag with all of his stuff in it. Luckily for his company he did get his work bag with his things that he needs to go to work in. We filled out the proper paperwork, but while they were looking in the computer for his lost bag they couldn't find it...that can't ...

We took our time as we wandered up and down Dak-Galbi Street in Chuncheon. This was definetly a decision that required plenty of patience and thought. We countered just over 20 or so restuarants all sellling one thing - Dak Galbi. For the uninitaited, Dak Galbi is spicy chicken BBQ, and Chuncheon is famous for it. No one I spoke to before or since the trip has been able to tell me why Chuncheon is famous for dak galbi, but it is. Famous in ...

I'm at Incheon International Airport very close to Seoul, South Korea. I flew with Asiana Airlines and I found out that they have free guided tours of Seoul that gives you a very brief overview of some of the best sites. This is great considering that I have a 15 hour layover here. Honestly though, if I had to choose any airport to have a layover in, this would be the one. They have huge internet cafés where it's $3 for 1 hour of high-speed, a cultural ...