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
- 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
- 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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kylieleewrites
- Dec 23, 2015
- 3 min
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,”...
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kylieleewrites
- Dec 3, 2015
- 6 min
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...
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kylieleewrites
- Oct 30, 2015
- 4 min
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...
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kylieleewrites
- Oct 7, 2015
- 4 min
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”...
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kylieleewrites
- Sep 12, 2015
- 4 min
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...
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