2014 was spectacular! After visiting my family in Hawaii for Christmas, I flew back to Seoul where I celebrated the new year in Hongdae with fireworks, dancing, and friends. I celebrated Buddha’s birthday in Busan and spent the summer biking the Han river, and wandering the streets of Seoul. At summer’s end, I said tearful […]
Read More 2014 In ReviewOriginally posted on The Study Abroad Guru:
Living and traveling abroad will inevitably teach you various invaluable life lessons. You learn how to avoid the doorman who keeps catching you throwing your trash in the incorrect bin because you can’t read the sign. You learn that navigating the transit system of a bustling Asian metropolis…
Hours before many of my friends will be jetting off to Japan, Vietnam, The USA and Thailand (that’s me!) –I thought it appropriate to post about my strange love for Seoul! Here are some real life researched quips on how to know you’ve been living in Seoul a bit too long. You painstakingly plan to […]
Read More Signs You’ve Been Living in Seoul Too LongUnsavvy Travels has been nominated for the Liebster Award! Coming up on about one year of blogging, I’m thrilled at the support of new followers and fellow bloggers. Big thanks to The Gastro Globetrotter @gastro_trotter for the nomination for the Liebster Award, which recognizes new bloggers and is a great way to help promote other blogs! […]
Read More Liebster Blogger Award Nomination!With mere single digit weeks left in Korea, my friends and I are entering a full-on frenzied state of planning: planning travel, planning our futures, and just plain planning. Collectively, we’ve spent countless hours scouring Lonely Planet’s Southeast Asia on a Shoestring, scrolling through Trip Advisor reviews, writing and revising packing lists and despite all […]
Read More What’s Next? After Korea…Dearest Family and Friends, It can be difficult, high-maintenance and frustrating to keep in contact with all of us jokesters living abroad. Just to call, some serious time-zone math is involved and it is both inconvenient and mind boggling, I know. Yes, it is Thursday here, Korea is technically in the future! It is also […]
Read More To Those I Love at Home and ElsewhereWhen I first told people I was moving to Korea, one of the first inquiries was how safe I was going to be, you know, since I was going to be so close to North Korea. Sigh. While I’m no expert and I am never as informed as I’d like to be on world news, […]
Read More Seoul, How Safe Thou ArtAs the months tick by and it seems like time is evaporating out from under us, my reflections are starting to feel more profound at times and my thoughts are scattering like leaves thrown around by a leaf blower. I’m starting to really freak out about the uncertainty of the future and about the […]
Read More The Challenge of Change9 Months of living in Korea have passed. Shocker, I still can’t say with any confidence that I know anything significant about how to do this. We may not be gurus but, I will say this: living in Korea is ever entertaining and living abroad is nothing like how it is on instagram. Here are […]
Read More 10 lessons we’ve learned after 9 months in Korea