My Favorite Winter Outfit

It’s cold here in South Korea. And since I live surrounding by mountains, it feel much more colder here than when I live in Washington along the coast. The first day it gets below 65, I start to get all my knitwear out of storage. This year with the move, I only had a handful […]

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A Day In The Life / ESL Teacher In South Korea

Hey guys! Just a quick glimpse of my life here in South Korea on a teaching day. I tried to record as much of my day as possible but life as a teacher does get busy. Hope you enjoy the video and give it a like if you do! Until next time, 안녕히 가세요, jane*

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Moving To Korea: What To Bring

You’re moving to Korea. You’re leaving everything behind to live and work aboard for a year (or more). Whether it’s to teach English at a Hagwon or with the EPIK program, there are a lot of things you need to do. Packing is probably one of the most important and stress inducing tasks to be […]

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The Cost To Become an ESL Teacher in South Korea

In some cases, it relatively affordable to become an ESL teacher. In my experience, it was a little bit more especially since I wanted to work in the EPIK program. Now you could go the ‘hagwon’ route, but for me, as a first-time teacher, I wanted to be in a more secure program. For EPIK, you need to have […]

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What I Got For Christmas… From Myself

Christmas was overseas this season and the holiday is more of a couples holiday rather than a family holiday. Since I live overseas and my family seems to have a hard time sending anything over to me, I went and ordered myself some Christmas gifts. Nothing too big. Just a couple of bits to tied […]

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Five New Year Goals

A new year has come and that means new goals and resolutions. Like the rest of the world I do have some goals I would like to tackle this year. Last year was great for me! I checked off most of the goals I had set: Coming to Korea, visiting another country, making new friends, […]

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