I leave for Thailand next Thursday (더음 주에 태국에서 갈거예요. ). I'm so excited. Nate and I are KTXing (bullet train) to Seoul (서울) in the afternoon (오후에) and taking an evening flight. We will get into Thailand at around 2a.m (두시 아침쯤에). Interesting (재미있어요). Haha. We will immediately head towards Cambodia (캄보디아에) and watch (볼거예요) the sunrise at Angk [View Full Entry]

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안녕하세요? 저는 메간예요. 경산과학고등학교에 선생님이에요. 저는 미국사람이에요. 지금 한글을 실습해요. 요즘 한국어를 많이 공부해요. Translation: Hello. How are you? My name is Megan. I am a teacher at Gyeongsan Science High School. I am an American. Now I p [View Full Entry]

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Back to work today (il heyo)... Well, sort of, I am physically at school (hakyo eh), but I start teaching tomorrow. This is still my first semester for almost two weeks... Then I head to Thailand (Taegook) for a week and a half and when I come back it will be my second semester with new students (haksang), a new co-teacher, and a new principal (kyo jang seon sang neem). CRAZY. It is amazing how many things happen and how little we have control over. I signed a document today that is assuring that I won't be paid for these past [View Full Entry]

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So I faded out of this blog-ness for a bit… I have been swimming in yoga and vacation. Mainly yoga, but this is technically a vacation for me. I have been given 2.5 weeks off of work and I have filled it with yoga. There was a holiday smack in the middle of the two and a half weeks (Lunar New Year… “So-lar”… for 3 days and the yoga studio is closed on Sundays (eel yo eel), but besides that I live at the studio)… And I go back to work on the 5th (ee wahl oh il), Thursday (mog yo [View Full Entry]

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Mad love. First off. That is important. Thank you all soooooo much for all of the comments and posts on here and Facebook, txts, etc... Images from Busan will be posted in the future... Once I get my hands on them. Haha. I woke up and cleaned my apartment to prepare for teachers coming. I had received a text from Najong seeing what I was doing for my b-day and she asked if we could get together for lunch. So after I clean I head to yoga. After class I was getting ready to leave and they said I couldn’t yet. [View Full Entry]

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I just walked home from the Gyeongsan train station… I feel a little tingly and very relieved. I spent yesterday (ojay) and this morning in Busan, the second biggest city (shee) in SoKo and let me just say, I’m in love. It has such a chill San Francisco vibe to it. AND it has BOMB Indian (Indo) and Thai (Taegook) food (eum sheek)… Right on the beach (pahdah)... So did I mention there is a beach? We watched part of the sunset there and reveled in the chilly, but gorgeous scenery. Then we found three giant trampolines to jump on. I’m [View Full Entry]

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Here is a video that I helped my first years make. It is for the http://PeaceProject.ning.com... I love my students. A lot. Also, it is officially my birthday here. I am gearing up for lunch with my Korean friends, and dinner with teacher's from my school... It is going to be a crazy day, but first, seeing as to how it is 1 AM; I should sleep... Peaces<3 Things I miss: PEOPLE: my family my friends PLACES: Golden Gate Park The Presidio The Beach in Pacifica The Bike Trails in F-Town It's A Grind My Parent's Home Trader Joe's Downtown Sac [View Full Entry]

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This past week has been insane. I had English Camp, which for me included disorganized 13 hour days of working with 6 other foreigners and 4 Korean English teachers to encourage 4 groups of 10 middle schoolers to use English and learn... Camp for me included: a talent show (my students performed Snow White... I demo-ed yoga), 6 classes about art and culture (for art we drew about our futures and used the future tense to talk about our hopes and dreams... for culture, which was a two hour class we made fortune tellers and asked questions about the future and [View Full Entry]

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I am physically exhausted... and my head was spinning with over-stimmulation, but I took some friends advice and did yoga at home and INSTANTLY felt a sense of calm and relaxation :) So the day started at 9:30am and we were put in the "teachers room," which is mainly just a holding space for us... They gave us access to snacks and drinks for the day and internet. We just sort of talked to each other to try and figure out was camp was like for us foreign teachers and what we would be responsible for. Also there was a talent [View Full Entry]

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I went to a friend's birthday party Friday night at like 8 and I stayed till about 10... I then walked to the train station and headed back to Gyeongsan... I used the excuse that I have yoga class in the morning, which is true, but I'm figuring there is something deeper that I am ignoring... I had fun for most of the night, minus the pricey drink menu. I met some people and had a tasty drink, but I think I like to go out and dance, if I am going to go out. I am not a huge fan [View Full Entry]

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