I’m not sure when it happens, but at a certain age/point in your life you reflect on the choices you’ve made, where you’ve ended up and how you’ve gotten there. I imagine I can’t be alone where there is a single choice, a yes or… Read More »A Defining Moment
Actually, there’s no lockdown in Korea and there hasn’t been one, but the title is catchier this way. It’s been nine weeks since I had shoulder surgery and I never would have imagined that I still wouldn’t have taught an English class. Last Wednesday classes… Read More »Life On Lockdown
I first heard about the Corona virus from another traveler who taught English in Shanghai. At the time she referred to it as SARS, so when the term corona virus started popping up I was confused, was it like the beer? I didn’t pay much… Read More »Catching Fear: Corona Virus
Christmas means something different to each person, how it was celebrated when they were younger and how it’s remembered as they’re older. While I listened to my friend recount what Christmas was to him, I thought to myself, “that’s nothing like mine was.” For most… Read More »Christmas Away From Home
A couple of weeks ago I went paintballing for the third time in my life. The last time I went paintballing was four years ago in Spain with my friend Mitch and a group of Spanish friends. This time it was with a bunch of… Read More »Paintballing in Korea
Korean Thanksgiving or “Chu-Seok” was this past weekend. It’s similar to our Easter in how the date is different each year, but the time off is almost always the same, two days. My first year here we were incredibly lucky, it was called the “golden… Read More »Korean Thanksgiving
Waiting at the bus stop I sometimes feel as if I’m Jim Carey in the Truman Show; standing there waiting, the same people pass at the same moments everyday. How would I know if they were actors or not? So far the set has remained… Read More »Busing through Boseong: Life as an Observer in Rural Korea