“What do you mean, ‘the air is poison’?” I said. “We’re in Korea, not China.” Veronica shook her head and set down her fork on our...

Text Conversation Over We Chat, 9:22PM Kylie: our bus leaves at 7:55, so let’s get there at 7:20. not sure how to get from the train stop...

The food is easily my favorite thing about Korea. This will be shocking to hear for anyone who knows me at all. I’m the kind of person...

“You said you need to lose weight, right?” my date said between slurps of noodles. “I don’t think I said that.” “Oh.” He put down his...

5:30AM: I’m a morning person, I tell myself. I like getting up early, I tell myself. Go be an early bird and catch some worms, I reason...

“Whatever they ask you to do, say yes.” This was the advice that one of the speakers gave us at EPIK orientation. Were you invited to a...

Very late PSA: I’m going to Seoul as an English teacher with EPIK next week… …and sometimes I wonder how I’m going to make friends with...

I hadn’t checked the countdown on my phone in weeks. I didn’t need to anymore, because I knew the little gray boxes labeled “WEEKS,”...

“We’re in Portugal,” I said. “We can’t get burgers.” That didn’t stop me from staring lustfully at the burger stand in the Lisbon food...

Foreigners in Salamanca are called guiris. I don’t know if guiris give off a particular smell, but everyone seems to know that we’re not...

The best day started at 5:00AM. I had to catch a 7:00AM bus to Galicia, so I crammed my clothes into a duffel bag, grabbed the “snack”...

Salamanca from the Rio Tormes “No pasa nada.” I hear this a lot in Spain. Translated in the most literal, anal-retentive way, it means...