top of page



KOREAN SNACK REVIEW
While writing some gruesome scenes about spider people and another blog post about crushing loneliness, I decided to take a break to try...
kylieleewrites
Oct 28, 20186 min read


Starting Year 2 in Korea
One year in Korea has gone by surprisingly fast. Flash back to me, one year ago, at EPIK orientation: Look at that naive little girl in...
kylieleewrites
Aug 29, 20184 min read


6 Things I Didn’t Know about Korea Before I Moved Here
“What do you mean, ‘the air is poison’?” I said. “We’re in Korea, not China.” Veronica shook her head and set down her fork on our...
kylieleewrites
Jul 24, 20187 min read


(Almost) Stranded in Boseong
Text Conversation Over We Chat, 9:22PM Kylie: our bus leaves at 7:55, so let’s get there at 7:20. not sure how to get from the train stop...
kylieleewrites
Jun 29, 20188 min read


What Korean School Lunch is like
The food is easily my favorite thing about Korea. This will be shocking to hear for anyone who knows me at all. I’m the kind of person...
kylieleewrites
May 25, 20186 min read


My Korean Dating Disaster
“You said you need to lose weight, right?” my date said between slurps of noodles. “I don’t think I said that.” “Oh.” He put down his...
kylieleewrites
Apr 23, 20189 min read


English Textbooks in Korea are Hilarious
I spend a lot of my lesson-planning time laughing at the English textbook that I’m required to teach from. On more than one occasion,...
kylieleewrites
Mar 30, 20184 min read


A Day in the Life: Teaching English in Korea
5:30AM: I’m a morning person, I tell myself. I like getting up early, I tell myself. Go be an early bird and catch some worms, I reason...
kylieleewrites
Feb 13, 20185 min read


Climbing a Mountain While Hungover
“Whatever they ask you to do, say yes.” This was the advice that one of the speakers gave us at EPIK orientation. Were you invited to a...
kylieleewrites
Dec 11, 20175 min read


Being Half Asian in Korea
Half-Asians have a spider sense for other half-Asians. It’s hard to describe what, exactly, makes someone “look” half-Asian. I’ve met...
kylieleewrites
Oct 3, 20176 min read


How Can You Make Friends in Your Second Language?
Very late PSA: I’m going to Seoul as an English teacher with EPIK next week… …and sometimes I wonder how I’m going to make friends with...
kylieleewrites
Aug 11, 20173 min read


I graduated hooray
A wild Kylie crawls out from a cave, even paler than before (which is really a feat, since she was already a bed sheet, so just imagine...
kylieleewrites
May 17, 20173 min read


The End
I hadn’t checked the countdown on my phone in weeks. I didn’t need to anymore, because I knew the little gray boxes labeled “WEEKS,”...
kylieleewrites
Dec 23, 20153 min read


Being American Abroad
“We’re in Portugal,” I said. “We can’t get burgers.” That didn’t stop me from staring lustfully at the burger stand in the Lisbon food...
kylieleewrites
Dec 3, 20156 min read


When to Play the “Foreigner Card”
Foreigners in Salamanca are called guiris. I don’t know if guiris give off a particular smell, but everyone seems to know that we’re not...
kylieleewrites
Oct 30, 20154 min read


The Best Day
The best day started at 5:00AM. I had to catch a 7:00AM bus to Galicia, so I crammed my clothes into a duffel bag, grabbed the “snack”...
kylieleewrites
Oct 7, 20154 min read


Victoria
Las mariposas “My neighbors don’t like birds,” my host mother said, tearing up another piece of bread and throwing it onto the patio....
kylieleewrites
Sep 29, 20154 min read


No Pasa Nada
Salamanca from the Rio Tormes “No pasa nada.” I hear this a lot in Spain. Translated in the most literal, anal-retentive way, it means...
kylieleewrites
Sep 12, 20154 min read


A Spanish Breakfast
Victoria, my Spanish host mother, pushed a stool up to the kitchen counter for me. She’d laid out a box of what looked like...
kylieleewrites
Sep 6, 20153 min read


How Youtubers Are Buying the Best Seller List
Zoe Sugg Zoe Sugg, an English internet celebrity known for her makeup tutorials and funfetti cupcake recipes, published her debut novel,...
kylieleewrites
Aug 23, 20155 min read
bottom of page