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Daejeon Cafe: Doodoodang / 두두당
Daejeon Cafe: Doodoodang / 두두당
Daejeon Cafe: Doodoodang / 두두당
Looks like we haven’t quite seen the last of the cafe posts from my time in Daejeon.
Today I’m bringing you a gorgeous cafe that’s a little bit outside of the city in the Daecheongdam area. If you have a car or are willing to bus for a while though it’s well worth the trip.
The big windows give…
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Saying Goodbye
Saying Goodbye
Saying goodbye is something that everyone has to do a lot of in life, but still somehow feels uniquely painful. I still haven’t gotten good at it, but I’ve gotten used to it. I said a lot of goodbyes when I left for college. Then when I started teaching English I became good friends with a lot of people who were only planning to be in the country for a semester or two at most and…
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Bangkok, Thailand: Day One
Bangkok, Thailand: Day One
Bangkok, Thailand: Day One
Tomorrow is the end of summer vacation and, although I say this every year, I truly cannot believe how quickly it went by. Between English camp, which ended up being two of the more stressful weeks of my entire life, and taking the GRE, the amount of days that I actually got to relax this vacation was pretty much the just the few days that I was in Thailand.
So I’m…
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Day Trip to Gangneung // 강릉
Day Trip to Gangneung // 강릉
Day Trip to Gangneung // 강릉
After a very very stressful first week of English Camp, Saturday morning found me awake bright and early to catch a bus over to Bokhap terminal in Daejeon to meet a friend so that we could go on a little one day adventure up to Gangwon-do.
For anyone who paid much attention during the winter olympics you may remember Gangneung as the city, in addition to Pyeongchang,…
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My Korea
My Korea
Over the past two and a half years I have detailed a lot of my feelings about Korea on this blog. I am, by nature, an overly sentimental person and so looking back on my posts from when I first arrived in Korea they read as such. Overly sentimental.
But the truth is that they were always my honest feelings. This space has always been a way for me to try to, by writing things down,…
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Daejeon Sky Park // 대전 하늘 공원
Daejeon Sky Park // 대전 하늘 공원
Daejeon Sky Park // 대전 하늘 공원
하늘 공원 is a small little park in Daedong that over looks the city. I’ve been wanting to go here since I moved to Daejeon two and a half years ago so I was really happy to finally get a chance to check it out.
We ended up taking a taxi most of the way up, which the driver was NOT happy about, but if you walk be prepared for a lot of stairs.
There’s not…
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Daejeon Cafe: Lanovo // 라노보
Daejeon Cafe: Lanovo // 라노보
Daejeon Cafe: Lanovo // 라노보 (대동점)
For the first time in a while I have a cafe that’s not in Galmadong. So for those of you living on the other side of Daejeon, this one is for you!
As far as I can tell there are a few of these cafe’s around Daejeon but this is the one located in Daedong. The building was originally used as a church so it’s actually quite big for a cafe with several…
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한국민속촌 // Korean Folk Village
한국민속촌 // Korean Folk Village
한국민속촌 // Korean Folk Village
Yesterday I ventured out of Daejeon to a place I’ve wanted to visit for a long time.
한국민속촌 is located in Yongin, a little outside of Seoul. From Daejeon it took me about an hour and 45 minutes to arrive at 신갈 station on bus bound for 수원. And from there another roughly 25 minutes on a city bus to the entrance of the Folk Village. I wouldn’t say that it’s exactly an…
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Daejeon Cafe: Joyful Coffee // 즐거운커피
Daejeon Cafe: Joyful Coffee // 즐거운커피
Joyful Coffee // 즐거운커피
I know it’s been a while but I’m back. And I have a new favorite cafe.
At this point I have visited a lot of cafes in Daejeon. But a lot of the places I visit to write about for this blog, I don’t go back to.
즐거운커피, however, is a new favorite. As someone for whom the word “joyful” most literally means quality coffee, Iron and Wine playing in the background, minimal yet…
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Spring: 벚꽃
Spring: 벚꽃
The past few weeks we’ve finally gotten some warmer weather, the sun has started to show its face again, and the cherry blossoms have almost all come and gone.
I don’t know how I manage to nearly miss them every year but it seems like I’m always catching them at the tail end. But maybe it’s for the best. You get to avoid the crowds that way.
So this morning, after waking up at 8:25…
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Daejeon Cafe: Jou // 카페 조우
Daejeon Cafe: Jou // 카페 조우
Daejeon Cafe: Jou // 카페 조우
Hello friends I’m coming to you today with a post from a beautiful cafe with huge windows and tons of natural light. It was absolutely perfect for enjoying the first blue sky that day we’ve had in about a week.
I came back to Korea last Saturday and for a full week the air quality has been so bad that the government has been sending out daily alerts reminding people…
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Starting Year Three
Starting Year Three
I’m back in Korea, back at my desk in the grade three teachers office at my school on top of the hill I have to climb every morning. Back to daily alerts from the government that is air quality is so bad you shouldn’t go outside, and back to my tiny apartment that takes three steps to cross.
When I came back from America last year to start my second year in Korea, I was met…
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Daejeon Cafe: Cafe Bru // 카페 브루
Daejeon Cafe: Cafe Bru // 카페 브루
Daejeon Cafe: Cafe Bru // 카페 브루
It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything on this blog! But I’m finally back in Daejeon after about three weeks at home visiting family in the US and I’m finally getting back into the swing of things so hopefully there will be lots more cafe’s coming your way very soon!
Today we’re visiting Cafe Bru (카페 브루) which is located, yet again, in Galmadong.
You’ll…
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Snapshots of Seoul
Snapshots of Seoul
Whenever we get out of Daejeon and up to Seoul for a weekend the time tends to revolve around “what are we going to eat next, when can we acceptably have another cup of coffee, and when can we eat again?”
Good food, or truly international food, is really the only thing that I feel like we lack in Daejeon so a weekend coffee/beer/food tour is pretty much ideal as far as I’m…
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Update
Update
It’s been about a month since I posted anything here and I just wanted to check in and say that I’m still alive!
The first year that I was in Korea every single thing I did I was doing it for the first time. It was scary and exciting and there was so much going on in my head that writing about it all here was an incredible way for me to process everything.
But these days it’s just my…
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Helping Your Students Feel Comfortable Speaking English
Helping Your Students Feel Comfortable Speaking English
Helping Your Students Feel Comfortable Speaking English
One of the biggest barriers we face as native English teachers in Korea is that it can be really hard to feel like you connect with the students in the same way that the other teacher do. Not only is there the obvious language barrier but also just the very real barrier of them not knowing what to talk to us about or if we’re interested in…
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Daejeon Cafe: Kafé Wave // 카페 웨이브
Daejeon Cafe: Kafé Wave // 카페 웨이브
Daejeon Cafe: Kafé Wave // 카페 웨이브
This is a cafe that I’ve actually been going to for a long time now. Located in Galmadong, Kafé Wave is a surf/vintage inspired coffee shop that offers a more chilled unpretentious vibe than a lot “pretty” cafe’s in Korea.
Plus the drinks are really good.
One of my friends and I somewhere along the line decided that this was our cafe for making travel plans, so…
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