This is why I'm here: travel. After seven months of grueling work, I'm off.

I decided to break my contract five months early to travel the world and eventually make it back to friends and family back in the states. By the time I get home to Chicago, it will have been 11 months abroad.

This was my first experience with living abroad. For whatever reason, it was something I opted against in university, choosing instead to take several, smaller trips; Amsterdam this year, Italy the next, followed by Ecuador and several cross-country road trips in between. The longest I'd ever traveled for was one month and one week. Eight months is different.

I arrived in Busan, South Korea in late September, 2008. I worked in shitty hagwon (private English institute) teaching English to adults everyday. This is a typical story. It's rare to find a trustworthy hagwon. That being said, they can likely say the same about English teachers.

As a Liberal and possibly tad bit eccentric young lady (at least by their standards), it's been interesting to live in one of the most conservative Asian countries. (More on this later.)

For now, I'm just doing my last bit of errands before taking off for Ho Chi Minh. Once I arrive, I've got some locals to meet up with for a possible trip to a museum and a definite dinner...thanks be to Couchsurfing.com.

Well, that's all for now. I'll write more after I arrive and figure out some of my life.

written by  Nomadic Movements Of An Itinerant on May 1, 2009 from Pusan, South Korea
from the travel blog: Nomadic Movements Of An Itinerant
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hey kk!

i:m so glad u started this blog. i can:t wait to read your thoughtful insights along your journey. i will visit this page a a lot.

& i:ll be thinking about you a ton over these next few months.

BE SAFE SORA

sarang haeyo

Nari

written by  Natalie on May 3, 2009

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