We're Going Back!
Greetings! If you are reading this, then you already know that we are heading back to Korea in August and I am so excited to be starting a new blog to tell you all about our adventure! Some of you may also know that we were in Korea in 2011 and know that it was very challenging (to say the least) so why would we go back? WHY That's the first and most common question I hear: some form of "Why Korea?" "Why go back when it was so hard last time?" and "Why not try somewhere new?" So here are my answers to those! First of all, we went to Korea when we were 23. It was the tail "end" of the recession, we had just gotten married in June and 5 months later we were on a plane to a foreign country for work, our first like, real jobs as "adults". So, there was a lot going on. Plus, it was a brand new school, I had not taught in a classroom before, it was only the two of us for the first month, plus there were many cultural nuances we were ...