Purchasing a TEFL course through the link here will result in us receiving compensation. We appreciate you trusting our opinion on the products that will help you teach and travel in 2020! Whenever I see people's travel photos, I always wonder what their secrets are. How can they afford these trips? Isn't it so expensive…
Purchasing a TEFL course through the link here will result in us receiving compensation. We appreciate you trusting our opinion on the products that will help you teach and travel in 2020! Before I became completely overwhelmed with the end of my teaching semester and my graduate school semester, I was talking to some different…
My first featured expat is Ollie. Ollie is an EFL teacher living in Daegu, South Korea. He's been in Korea for quite some time, and has found his own way to share his life experience in Korea. After reading, be sure to check out his YouTube channel! C: How long have you been in Korea?…
Saturday, December 7. I wake up, ready for the day. I have four hours to pack my bags, clean my apartment, and get to the bus terminal. I'm off on another trip. First stop: Taiwan. Quite a few of my friends visited Taiwan, and they all had great things to say, so I was excited…
I'm really happy that my first expat interview is someone I can say is a close friend of mine. We spent our first year abroad together. Sam was a fellow teacher at the Jinju Mirae Center who recently made her way back to the United States after spending a year teaching English abroad. For Sam's…
The beginning of October is a beautiful time of year. Although it is still a bit too hot for my liking and a typhoon could strike at any time, there are still plenty of opportunities to get out and go hiking. Using one of my days off, I went on a hike in Hamyang. Hamyang…
Everyone's experiences of living abroad are different. Us expats live in different cities, countries, and all come from different backgrounds. For that reason, I thought that it would be fun to chat with different expats about their experiences. Over the next few weeks, I will be sharing the expat experiences of different people I have…
Every time I say I'm traveling somewhere new, there's always at least one person who says I hope you're not going alone. I usually just ignore the question and decide to tell them I went alone after I get back. Because I learned very early on that if I wait for people to go with…
I think Autumn is finally ariving in Jinju. I woke up this morning to some crisp air drifting in through my window, and my walk to work was pleasant, coming in at about 62 degrees. Saying goodbye The last month has been busy. I started September getting to know my new coworkers and getting ready…
In the beginning of May, I realized I only had a short window of time that I could use my remaining vacation days. And I hadn't planned a single thing. I had thought about taking a trip to Hanoi, maybe Chiang Mai or Bangkok, but I wasn't so sure. So I started frantically googling different…
