coffee and hot chocolate...

You know you're a morning person when you are anxious to go to bed because an early morning with french pressed Christmas Blend is on your mind.  You know your morning person(ness) is conditional when you've stayed up too late and found a way to get ready for work and out the door in 25 minutes.  Everything comes second: breakfast, nice hair, brushed teeth (jk, I brush my teeth every morning)...though I find I whip together some pretty awesome outfits when I'm under pressure.  On the subject of whipping, my evening hot chocolate (half water, half whole milk^^) was whisked/whipped instead of stirred today because THERE ARE NO SPOONS IN KOREA.  Okay, that's not true.  I just need to wash some spoons.  Though I'd like to think of myself as an adult, doing whatever I please, I groan with irritation as I feel the need to rinse off my fork before getting another scoop of cocoa powder--thanks food handlers class (aka Health Dept) I'm paranoid about cross-contamination now...

Getting to knoooow me, getting to learn all abooout me...name that (slightly edited) tune.

HELLO. Dolly. No, jk. Name that musical (I will be sad if you can't). Hi, there everyone! I've never written to the masses before, so here we gooooo. I assume many people will read this, but in reality, maybe only a few(?) haha.


I think of a blog as a place to write extra long fb statuses.


Well, let's get to know each other (and when I say "each other" I mean it's a one sided conversation unless you comment on this). I am from the good ol' US. West coast. I lived in Cali (Bay area) until I was 7 years old, then my family moved to WA where I was home schooled until 10th grade. I attended most of the community colleges and universities in my city (I'm serious, 5 total). It took me a long time to settle on a major because I wasn't going to settle. I studied Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences with an emphasis in Global Studies and a minor in Asian Studies. I got to study art, politics, culture, economics (I love economics, so interesting), and religion. After I graduated I worked for a year then decided to move to Korea. I've always been interested in learning Korean. I don't really know why I've always wanted to do this...I remember hearing my grandparents speaking in Korean when I was kid, FULLY confident they were talking about me (yeah, right--I'm sure they had more important things to talk about). It was like a secret code language. I want to learn their secret code language! SO, I've been living in Gangwon-do, Korea for the past few months. Learning this language, living away from friends and family, and TEFL is THE MOST CHALLENGING THING I'VE EVER DONE IN MY LIFE. But I am really enjoying Korea and hope to have a pretty good grasp of the language by the time I leave. This blog is designed to share a bit of what goes on in my life with friends, family, and anyone else who cares to stop by.
*warning* before you read more of my posts: I use parentheses and commas like there's no tomorrow--oh, and dashes, lots of those too. If this drives you grammar people crazy...sorry. ^^ I will strive to become a better writer as we go along.