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The One Where I Went to Cheong-dong Rose Village in South Korea

Back in May, when roses were blooming EVERYWHERE in Seoul, I wanted to find someplace a little off the beathen path. There were bigger events and festivals around, and maybe next year I’ll visit those, but for now, I just wanted something gentler. One thing about Seoul is there no end to
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Life This Week in South Korea: June 24-30, 2024

Monday, June 24 The week’s just keep on coming, don’t they? Sigh. Tutoring in the morning. Class. Dinner. Rooftop for sunset. Tuesday, June 25 Trembling and crying have become my personality. I am SO nervous about the whole hospital thing. Korean hospitals very different than US hospitals. I’m supposed to have a
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Life This Week in South Korea: June 17-23, 2024

Monday, June 17 I don’t know if y’all will remember the nice Taiwanese girl and her sister from my first class here. That term she was one of the few students who  spoke English, and she was such a help to me in that class when I NEVER knew what was going
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This Week in South Korea: June 10-16, 2024

Monday, June 10 Well, my weekend hiding from the world was the right way to go, as I’m feeling a little better today. I’m trying to remain optimistic that the meeting/conversation with my one friend this week will go well…that they will be reasonable and kind…and we can remain friends. In that
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Where Bloggers Live: A Day in the Life: Vacation Edition: Busan, South Korea

Welcome to this month’s edition of Where Bloggers Live. It’s kind of like HGTV’s “Celebrities at Home,” but…Bloggers! Who doesn’t like to peek behind the scenes and see inside people’s homes, interests, and lives? Every month a group of seven bloggers share their work-spaces, homes, towns, and thoughts, with posts based on
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Life This Week in South Korea: June 3-9, 2024

Monday, June 3 Today was back to the urologist to follow-up on my kidney stone. I’d had the procedure scheduled for the end of February and had to cancel then cuz the insurance hadn’t kicked in yet. And a week later I hurt my knee, so I wasn’t even thinking about kidney
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Life This Week in South Korea: May 27-June 7, 2024

Monday, May 27 I am recovering today. Nothing on my to-do list except tutoring at 9:30. Yes, even on break, I have to study. I can’t afford to take a break. And poor Jun, really had to face a Bettye Meltdown. We were going over something that I’ve struggled with each class
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Life This (Partial) Week in South Korea: May 20-24, 2024

Monday, May 20 First “real” day of vacation. I’m on vacation until June 5. The breaks are all about 2.5 weeks, which is a nice length. Had a tutoring session in the morning, with a minor meltdown. I’m getting so frustrated that things we’ve gone over and over and over again are
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These Weeks in South Korea: May 6-19, 2024

I’ve lost complete track of the past two weeks as far as what happened when…the past week was finals week, so there was THAT – studying and anxiety and depression and trying not to sleep 24/7. So Just to get caught up I’m just going to share the pictures and some highs
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Where Bloggers Live: Fighting Boredom

Welcome to the monthly edition of Where Bloggers Live. It’s kind of like HGTV’s “Celebrities at Home,” but…Bloggers! Who doesn’t like to peek behind the scenes and see inside people’s homes, interests, and lives? Every month a group of six bloggers share their work-spaces, homes, towns, and thoughts, with posts based on
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Life This Week in South Korea: April 29-May 5, 2024

Nothing much happened this week, really. I had a test and a presentation to do – that occupied my mind and mental faculties for the first half of the week. No Hyungeun Night as he was preparing for a presentation he gave at a conference on Saturday. I forget he’s a smarty
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This Week in South Korea: April 22-28, 2024

Monday, April 22 This week is already dumb cuz there are so many doctory things. Tuesday morning I have to go to a new urology clinic to get a referral to go back to the urologist I’ve been to several times before. Wednesday I go to the urologist I’ve been to several
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Life This Week in South Korea: April 15-21, 2024

Monday, April 15 Tutor. Class. Home. I’m a little down this week. Yes, already. It’s only Monday and I’m already like ugh. It rained today and that’s always annoying. I wanted to buy two tomatoes. You can’t buy two tomatoes. But you CAN accidentally buy two PACKS of tomatoes, containing 6 tomatoes
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Life This Week in South Korea: April 8-14, 2024

Monday, April 8 Since there’s so little else going on these days, I thought I’d at least start sharing my daily outfit posts again. Which could be equally as boring as “what I did this week,” since I have like 20 pieces of clothing that I wear on heavy repeat. So much
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Where Bloggers Live: My Favorite Month

Welcome to the monthly edition of Where Bloggers Live. It’s kind of like HGTV’s “Celebrities at Home,” but…Bloggers! Who doesn’t like to peek behind the scenes and see inside people’s homes and lives? Every month a group of six bloggers share their work-spaces, homes, towns, thoughts, with posts based on specific prompts.
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Life These Weeks in South Korea: March 25-April 7, 2024

Monday, March 25 Well, the visit with the sports clinic was disappointing 🙁  While no one WANTS surgery, it’s painful and inconvenient and disruptive…I DO want my knee fixed so I can enjoy my time here (and the rest of my life!!!). But they did new x-rays, and while 3 other doctors/radiologists
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Life This Week in South Korea: March 18-24, 2024

Monday, March 18 Tutoring in the morning, class in the afternoon, convenience store for dinner and studying. I’m trying to study “out” a little more so I’m not just in my room every evening. Tuesday, March 19 Newsflash: I Slept Straight Through the Night. Woohoo. That’s a rarity these days. After class
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Life This Week in South Korea: March 11-17, 2024

How many weeks do I start with, “well, THAT was a week!”? Well, add one. Monday, March 11 So my tutoring schedule has lightened up since I’m in Korean 101 for the mumblemumblethirdtime. Instead of 5 mornings a week, we just meet (zoom) two mornings a week. Which is nice as it
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Life This Week in South Korea: March 4-10, 2024

Monday, March 4 Started the week off with a tutoring session bright and early…followed by a cafe meetup with a young woman from my class this term. Very nice person with a warm, outgoing vibe. After the cafe we came back to campus here and sat by the lake for a pretty
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WHERE BLOGGERS LIVE ~ How I “Manage” Money

Welcome to the monthly edition of Where Bloggers Live. It’s kind of like HGTV’s “Celebrities at Home,” but…Bloggers! Who doesn’t like to peek behind the scenes and see inside people’s homes and lives? Every month a group of six bloggers share their work-spaces, homes, towns, thoughts, with posts based on specific prompts.
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