Allie and Erin
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Korea was an independent kingdom under Chinese suzerainty for most of the past millennium. Following its victory in the Russo-Japanese War in 1905, Japan occupied Korea; five years later it formally annexed the entire peninsula. After World War II, ... [read more]
Korea was an independent kingdom under Chinese suzerainty for most of the past millennium. Following its victory in the Russo-Japanese War in 1905, Japan occupied Korea; five years later it formally annexed the entire peninsula. After World War II, ... [read more] Blog: Goodbye Allie
Date: September 18th 2006
Rough. There really isn't any other way to put it. So many people I love have left me this month I feel, as Jen put it, like I am being punched int he stomach over and over again. You think when you leave Calgary that your "goodbyes" are behind you until you go home and the "hellos" begin. But alas, Korea is all about goodbyes. In fact, you say so many that you evenutally start turning off the emo ... read more
Date: September 18th 2006
Rough. There really isn't any other way to put it. So many people I love have left me this month I feel, as Jen put it, like I am being punched int he stomach over and over again. You think when you leave Calgary that your "goodbyes" are behind you until you go home and the "hellos" begin. But alas, Korea is all about goodbyes. In fact, you say so many that you evenutally start turning off the emo ... read more
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Good ol' Canadian (Okotokian) girl...done a degree, done the bar slinging bit. Sometimes a girl dreams of becoming something else, seeing ANYTHING else, other than the familiar. Or dreams of finding the familiar somewhere alien. I'm doing the foreign teaching thing in Korea for a change of pace. Plan is to "see the world" after that. I want something.... I realize it's easy to say "I want to change the world", so I would rather say that I want to just follow whatever path is possible to make somebody's life better, somehow. And let's be honest, no one forsakes the comforts of home without look... full info
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