Miyajima and Making Deer Friends

On a cool day in October, I stood on the starboard side of a ferry that was slicing slowly through the rolling waves, wind tossing my hair about wildly. As the boat turned toward the dock – a red gate rose majestically out of the waters, announcing the Shinto Shrine beyond. I was about to […]

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A Plague of Yellow Dust

Spring: a time of renewal, growth, the part of the year when Persephone gets to return to the Earth after spending some casual time in the Underworld, cherry blossoms. Oh, and in South Korea? Yellow Dust. What I would describe as a parasitic cloud of fine dust that oozes down from the Gobi Desert to […]

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Seoul in Love

It’s been a while since I’ve updated, I may be an utter failure at being a proper blogger. But here I am nonetheless making poor puns for my blog titles ;P To summarize the first month or so: The week of training for my job as an English teacher can boil down the words hectic […]

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