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...
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kylieleewrites
- Jul 24, 2018
- 7 min
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...
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kylieleewrites
- Jun 29, 2018
- 8 min
(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...
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kylieleewrites
- May 25, 2018
- 6 min
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...
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kylieleewrites
- Apr 23, 2018
- 9 min
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...
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kylieleewrites
- Mar 30, 2018
- 4 min
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,...
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kylieleewrites
- Feb 13, 2018
- 5 min
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...
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kylieleewrites
- Dec 11, 2017
- 5 min
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...
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kylieleewrites
- Oct 3, 2017
- 6 min
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...
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kylieleewrites
- Aug 11, 2017
- 3 min
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...
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