Asia Archive

On Friday evening I arrived in Tokyo and, in a classic sweaty mess, grabbed the airport train towards Tokyo Station. Getting off at Tokyo Station was quite the introduction to Japan – people swarmed everywhere in the heat of rush hour. It …

My final day in Korea! I’m already so sad to see it pass by. I decided this afternoon to do a temple stay program, in which you visit a local Buddhist temple and spend the day learning about life there. In some …

On Wednesday I went to Jaclyn’s school with her! We started the morning with chapel, where a sea of students sang unintelligible Christina hymns in Korean (Jaclyn’s high school is a Christian school). One university was visiting and promoting their school. They had …

Note: I’m pretty behind on my posts, trying to catch up! Monday Jaclyn’s friend Young (phonetic spelling of course) was kind enough to take me into Seoul. We hopped around and explored city hall, Korean markets (where I bought a gazillion socks), …

This was an action-packed weekend, but I’ll do my best to recap the awesomeness! Shameless Shabu After a quiet morning of resting and web work on Friday, Jaclyn finished school at 1:30pm and we saddled up to head into Seoul. But before …

My first day in Korea was a great one! We started the morning meeting up with a few of Jaclyn’s students for a field trip! Other students had the day off today because the older students have a huge exam (think MCAS). …