Growing up, a trip to the seashore boardwalk town meant fudge shops and salt water taffy. My sister and I would climb on the rocks, jumping from one to another hoping to not fall as we slowly made our way to a lighthouse ending. In Korea, boardwalk towns have small cafes, ice cream cones as…

I started figure skating because of the 2002 Olympics. I was watching Sasha Cohen skate a firey routine, mesmerized by her graceful spirals and abstract spins, and I knew in that moment that I was going to skate. I wanted to be just like her. Naturally, when I told my mom this, she didn’t think…

Just thinking about everything I have explained to everyone this summer before I head back to the Land of the Morning Calm. Number One: I am not teaching English, I am teaching in English. I cannot make this any clearer to people. People always ask what subject I teach, or if I teach Korean, or how…

Most people find airports stressful and congested, a chaotic gateway from destination to destination. I actually love being in airports and look forward to it both before and after going on a trip. The key is getting to the airport extremely early so that you feel complete relaxation the entire time. Line? So what!? I…

Most of the time, foreigners come to Korea to visit Seoul. They want to take in the marvels of Gyeongbokgung palace and get a birds eye view of the city from the top of Namsan Seoul Tower. Ironically, even though I have been to both of these places, I am yet to actually fully experience…

This past week I had the pleasure of traveling outside of Korea, for the first time since being an Alien Resident, to another part of Asia. I traveled 4 hours to the city of Hanoi in Vietnam, spending three days in the bustling city and one additional day visiting the popular World Heritage site, Halong…

Recently, when I’ve flown in airplanes it’s been to go to a different country. This past weekend however, I actually took a domestic flight. The destination was Jeju, an island off the southern coast of South Korea.  Although, despite it being the same country, the place itself felt totally different. Jeju is often referred to…

This past week I went on a 7-day road-trip across the penisula, hitting up major cities like Sokcho, Gyeongju, Busan, and Jeonju among some other smaller attractions. Despite warnings of heavy traffic and long drives during the Chuseok holiday, I would say we did relatively well in terms of seeing what we wanted, getting to…

It’s officially been one month since I first landed here in South Korea, and what better way to celebrate then by writing a post about one of my favorite things: FOOD. Before traveling overseas, one of my favorite places to go out to eat was a Korean restaurant in Maynard, MA called Little Pusans. It…

Even being from Boston, I have only been to a handful of baseball games in my life. I’ve always enjoyed going though because of the atmosphere of a game; peanuts, popcorn, crowded stands, etc. But the difference between a Korean baseball game and an American one (not the players as some are actually American) is…

I’ve swam in freezing cold water before. I’ve also swam in ridiculously hot water before. Some bodies of water have been salty, some have been fresh. Some have been crystal clear like the water off the coast of Hawaii, and others have had pools of cloud. But there was something quite differentabout the water that…

The Songdo Province of Incheon, South Korea is like a plot from ZooTycoon;”CityTycoon.” Everything is so particular, mapped out, fresh. We walked by a wilting flower bed today in the middle of the big park in the central part of the city. I hadn’t seen any gardeners around and thereforeI asked one of my friends…