In a Korean workplace, it’s customary for co-workers to just randomly give each other gifts. Cookies, tangerines, rice cakes, etc. My favorite gifts are the tangerines – like the strawberries here, they are supernaturally sweet. My least favorite gifts are these giant blocks of rice cake, which look like this: Usually I’ve learned to accept [...]
or, as my students call it, “Egg Day”: 3 people like this post. Like Unlike
Last night was our anniversary (though E had it in his Google calendar that it was really today, and we’re not sure who is right exactly. Technology doesn’t always solve everything) so we went out for sushi in the nearest city to me, Gwangju. There’s another, much bigger city with the same name to the [...]
Meet the newest addition to my family, Hermione Abenteuer. I picked the Harry Potter nerd name, Eli picked the German word for ‘adventure.’ Also thought about just calling her “Dochi” because the word for “hedgehog” in Korean is “ko seum do chi.” Be the first to like. Like Unlike
