So the fun just doesn’t stop… While I’m still sorting out my reaction to my new move, luck-draw number two just hit, when on my first day of school, I learned that every peeing portal in my school was a porcelain… hole in the ground.
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Video: My First Day at a Korean Elementary School
No teaching today- most of the time I spent online in the teacher’s room, but here is a short video I quickly threw together of some of the highlights of my first day.
Full Story »Korean Cold
The words cold and Korean are synonymous… it’s winter here and the buildings in Korea don’t have central heating. Instead, buildings get “selective heating”…
Full Story »GRRRL Goes Whimpery in Her New Korean Location
I’m gonna start my Korean blogging with my first “real” GRRRL whimper… the moment when “yours truly” turned girlie whiny and wanted to book the first flight home!
Full Story »Serendipity and the Single GRRRL Traveler
Next week I will be leaving Hawaii/the States for Korea! In preparing for this move, it’s getting a bit stressful and unfortunately,…
Full Story »11 Tips to Speed Learn a Language
Big OOPS! My new blog design is still in a shuffle & my last post accidentally released before my final edit. I’ve since updated it…. My new post for today: 11 Tips for Improving your Memory Technique & Speed Learning a Language.
Full Story »Learning My Survival Korean (Part II)
The countdown to my Korea launch date has officially begun so roughly put, I’m trying to speed learn Korean. My learning obstacle?…I’m kinda vacillating between a silent freak out and a scattered panic. A few weeks ago, I started my search for the Cinderella’s glass slipper of grammar books
Full Story »Learning My Survival Korean (Part 1)
To learn a word is to chew into it and digest it; and when you’re a vegetarian moving abroad to a foreign country, in order to eat you’ll eventually need to learn to read a restaurant menu, food ingredients or be able to ask the waitress …
Full Story »2 Ways Travelers Can Prevent Bed Bugs & Mosquitoes
Two Tips for dealing with everything in “traveler-scary” from mosquitos, bed bugs, head lice, etc…
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