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It’s been a while since we’ve updated this site with our latest misadventures so first things first: no we haven’t defected to North Korea, no we haven’t been arrested, and no, we haven’t ended up victims in some snuff film after a weekend retreat to a hostel in the countryside went wrong.
The truth is, we’ve […]

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It’s hard to believe we’ve already been out in Korea for almost five months. Sometimes it feels like just the other day our Director was picking us up at the airport after a 12 hour flight out of San Francisco, then other days it feels like we’ve been out here for years already. It’s fair […]

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Some of the best cultural tips on how to adjust to living in Korea as a westerner come from GEPIK’s own website. For those that don’t know, GEPIK employees thousands of English Teachers and is sort of like the Los Angeles Unified School District, a New England prep school, and pre-school rolled into one. From […]

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Ahhh, life abroad. One of our teachers who’s leaving this sunday flew into an emo temper tantrum today in the teachers lounge after he discovered we weren’t going to be moving into his apartment, and as a result, the stuff he’d acquired (as one easily does) over here would have to find proper homes, and […]

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After finally conquering our month long perpetual sickness (cold, diarrhea, headaches, sobriety), we spent sunday taking the Amazingly Efficient Subway from Ori right up into Seoul for a little bit of Historical wanderings. That’s a rather drab way to say we spent the day wandering around a big ass palace that’s like, many many years […]

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Although yesterday was our official 1 month in Korea anniversary, we were both far too sick to even make a blog post, let get out of bed after work. When you’re shivering beneath sheets and you’re offictel’s heat is jacked up to almost 75′ degrees, you know you’ve caught one mean mother-freakin’ virus. I’ve never […]

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