I'm back home in Korea from my vacation in Thailand. It's full on monsoon season here in Korea, hot and humid. It's kind of fun and satisfying how intense the rain storms are, and I really don't mind, growing up in the Lower Mainland, it's kind of comforting to have these rainy days. Thailand was perfect. I can so see the appeal now, and why some people never want to leave. I could have easily spent months and months there, just drinking fresh fruit sm...

It's been a month already! This weekend I started my Korean cooking class, which was really fun. It's held at the Daejeon International Culture Centre, which puts on a bunch of different classes/events for foreigners in the city. It was way more professional than I expected, we had our own cooking stations and this really great translator. I'm starting yoga classes next week and a Korean language exchange! I have to say, it's really great how reasonable &qu...

I arrived in Korea exactly 2 weeks ago, and I have nothing but wonderful things to say so far. I'm not sure exactly what I was expecting here, but for some reason I had kind of braced myself for coming here. Maybe it's because I've met some people who had taught in Korea, and didn't have a very positive experience because they worked for a terrible private company, or maybe it's because I've never really had a life-long burning desire to travel to Korea, like...

Okay.... So I'll admit... I'm a bad blogger! I haven't written in a looooong time, but here it goes!So rather than try to re-cap the rest of my time in Turkey, I am just going to jump to Tokyo, where I am now! Tokyo... where to begin? Well, I absolutely love this city! I could easily live here for a while. The people I have met, are incredibly sweet and helpful (particularly with my first few hopeless attempts to negotiate the metro/train systems here...). W...

I have just returned from a mini-holiday to the south of the Marmara Sea. I went to Iznik and Termal with some of my friends from work and had saw some really amazing things. Iznik is famous for its ceramics and tiles, but there were also a huge amount of historical sites in the city, seeing as it was founded sometime around 1000 BC! So naturally, I loved it. Unfortunately, both the Iznik museum AND the inside of the Aya Sofya were closed!!! That's what we ge...