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.

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.

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”…

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!

In lieu of Valentine’s Day, today’s post is about the language of Sarang-he (Korean for “Love”) and what better way to do it, than through the typical Korean soap drama! K-dramas have been the recent rage that’s been spreading across the globe with Asian countries and places like Hawaii.

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

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 …

My first camel riding adventure did not take place in Morocco, Egypt or Mongolia… it took place last year in India! Deep in the Rajasthan region where the environment is arid and hot, you can see these Quasimodo animals as native to the region as cows pulling wagons.

Continued from A Gap Year Abroad: Gaining A Year vs. Losing One (Part I):
Living my dreams to move abroad during a crucial period in my professional life may seem escapist. But I have absolutely no intention of losing a year (or longer) of my life to the squandering road. Well, not up front.