CHUSEOK: Korean Thanksgiving… Neat costumes… (or as history and culture would like us to call them, “hanboks”) Pushing each other… Chuseok ROCKS! P.S. I’ve been quite busy trying to knock off items on my Korean bucket list as of late. Last Sunday I got the chance to visit Everland, Korea’s fake Disney World. It was [...]
Archive for September, 2011
No turkey… but you get to wear neat costumes and push each other!
Posted in Uncategorized on September 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
One year ago…
Posted in Uncategorized on September 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
…today, my Facebook status read… Monica Phillips’s life revolves around Korean immigration. Glad that’s over! Here’s to pushing through the bull malarkey and not giving up!
I get so emotional…
Posted in Uncategorized on September 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
But not in the way Miss Houston once described in her hit song… It’s started. Already. With the curtains coming down on my Korean experience in just a few weeks, I have already stated falling into this ridiculous habit of gazing at my students like a criminal/ father on death row. When I’m not attempting [...]
I’m sorry… what? It’s September? You sure?
Posted in Uncategorized on September 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This is weird. Only two more months of Korea. Can you believe? I can’t. I feel like I just got off the boat a few days ago. Just worked up the courage to start a blog. Just said BUH-BYE to the good ol’ U S of A. And now… here we are. Wrapping things up, [...]
