Happy Chuseok!

Happy Chuseok!

First, to all my family, friends and readers not in Boulder County: please send any thoughts and prayers you can spare to the areas in the northern front range of Colorado. While all my close friends are safe, many are facing tens of thousands of dollars of damage,...
Picnic!

Picnic!

We decided to have a little picnic on the beach one night after school. We got a recommendation on where to go, and I packed up the traditional Korean picnic food – kimbap. Kimbap (or Gimbap, depending on how you anglicize the Korean characters) is just the...

Recipe: Sweet and Spicy Sesame Chicken

So I’ve been watching Korean cooking YouTube instructionals during the day. There are a few I really like – a mom who sends her daughters recipes so they can carry on their heritage, the young Korean-American mom who’s son runs around in the...
Dinner, Korean style

Dinner, Korean style

We’ve spent a couple nights in the last week trying some of the local cuisine with some of the other teachers. Both were different than expected, and we’re trying to learn to stop expecting, and just experience! On Wednesday night, we told another teaching...
First Olle Hike! Route 8

First Olle Hike! Route 8

Date envelope #2 gave us a map and some cash to help us get to one of the many Jeju Olle trails – a major network of more than 20 individual routes connected back-to-back to completely circle the island. We’re hoping to get through all the trails before we...