Blogs from Sincheon, Seoul, South Korea, Asia

FINALLY! I’m so done packing for a 10-day trip to South Korea. Such a stressful endeavor especially when you’re trying to squeeze everything inside a medium-sized luggage without sacrificing fashion. Haha! But, really, I was worried for days on how my thermals, scarves, bonnets, etc. would ever fit inside our luggage. But it did… including my tripod! Now, let’s just hope that the airline company where we booked our flight with would handle our luggage with utmost care. Since I’ve always been my group’s unassigned, but official, itinerary maker, I’m sharing here where we’re all going hoping it could help others in mapping out their own itinerary to South Korea. Please do note that our age (yes, our age… we’ve been travelling together for the past 13 years) and our physical prowess (what prowess?!) were very ... read more

Airplanes are only comfortable if you're well-to-do or under 3 years old. if you're not one of these airplane are so very uncomfortable, no matter where you sit. i'm sitting in korea dreading boarding the flight to singapore, i don't care to go to singapore, except for stinky tofu but i'm not even sure they have that there, i know it's in malaysia. they do have stinky tofu in singapore and it will be my mission to find it as it seems the only thing singapore has to offer me aside from strengthening my desire to be in india. i deal with my life as i can and as it comes. before leaving all i could deal with was the mechanics of packing and preparing to leave. now that i'm on my journey a whole other ... read more

Hello again everyone! Before I start this blog I want thank everyone for sending me messages. It's pretty cool to see what you all are thinking and it's nice to know people are keeping up with what I'm doing. Hope everyone is doing well. Jining I must say, my time in Jining was very different from last summer. Although I saw many of the same people, it was as though they treated me even more as a member of their family. Ranran's mom (a yi - aunt) and dad (shushu - uncle) took very good care of me. I had forgotten what hunger felt like. Every lunch and dinner there was endless food that I could never finish! We really need to import REAL Chinese food to America. Inner Mongolia is known for it's mutton and ... read more

It is almost 2:30 am on Sunday night (morning) and I can NOT sleep. I'm not tired at all, in fact I'm wide awake and I can't relax. I'm just.. AWAKE! I had a decent day, alright conversation, a good walk, a few laughs, some bad coffee. I started to get ready for bed to try and trick myself into thinking I was tired. My logic: maybe if I just do the things I do before I go to sleep that would help. I washed my face and brushed my teeth for the 3rd time, I tidied up my kitchen and fluffed my pillows. I turned on my radio to set my alarm - 7:00am. Terrible. My radio used to play songs I could sing along with but now only blasts out whiney Korean music and ... read more

Monday afternoon while walking back from a failed attempt at finding the groceries I needed, a loud alarm sounded. People seemed to be hurrying along their way, but nothing out of the ordinary, so i continued on mine. I kept looking behind me waiting for an Ambulance or something to speed by. The noise was so loud, but it was continuous and steady. It wasn't getting louder or quieter, it just rang one. Minutes went buy and it continued. As I came up to the front gate of Ewha i saw that there were a few guards there closing the front gates, only allowing one small section for people to walk in and out. The road into campus was also closed. That was odd. It was only maybe 2 in the afternoon. They don't close the ... read more

I thought I would write a second post about my weekend, since I didn't really do that much. I was so sick and having the food poisoning at the beginning of the week just exhausted my body, and if there's one thing I know about myself it's that proper rest and TLC is the only way I feel better. On Saturday I woke up feeling like I had glass shards in my throat but I had planned on meeting up with Quan, my friend from university who has been living here teaching for the past year. I was really looking forward to it so we planned to meet at 3 at Sincheon station. As I walked up the steps in Sincheon station I saw Quan's familiar face, I was so happy to see someone I know ... read more