Aliens – that’s us! The Korean Immigration process
Oh, the joys of immigration… just when you thought the mountains of paperwork from applying for EPIK was fun, there’s more to come! A part of teaching in Korea is […]
Oh, the joys of immigration… just when you thought the mountains of paperwork from applying for EPIK was fun, there’s more to come! A part of teaching in Korea is […]
Once we had decided we wanted to take a gap year from our day to day working lives, the next decision was how to do it. Since we had financial […]
Well, the last blog post just ended up being way too long so I’ve split them up. Here is the post for the non-clothes things to bring to Korea. #1 – […]
I read so many of these lists before we made the move to Korea, so I thought I would add to the collection online. Also, this is a bit more of an […]
So getting used to a new country was always going to have its challenges. Like getting used to a keyboard where the buttons either side of the spacebar change the […]
Our home for the year is Jeongok (전곡) a small town on the banks of the Hantang River. Home to around 20,000 people and situated just 15km from the North Korean border, […]
Chris’ School. I teach at Cheongsan Middle School, a small school about 5-minute bus ride out of Jeongok, the town we are based in (blog on our town to follow). […]
Since Chris and I weren’t married, we didn’t end up getting accommodation together. However, we were pretty lucky to be only 5 minutes down the road from each other (and […]
Soooo we are now two days into being actual teachers and things are on the way up. Why on the way up you may ask? WELL: Sarah’s first two days […]
We had a number of ‘discussions’ while packing for this adventure about what to bring and what to leave behind, one of those revolved around towels. Sarah was determined to bring a […]