Peanut Butter

Kimbab Factory

By Rachel E. Brooks, ETA ’14-’16 On my first Saturday with my homestay family, my host mom, Heeyang, and I visited the grocery store. Too overwhelmed by the options and too timid to request anything from the woman kind enough to take in a foreigner with the Korean language ability equal to that of her […]

Returning

Noksapyeong Station

By Rachel K. Fauth, ETA ’16-’17 When I wake up from a three-hour nap after a ten-hour night of sleep on my first day back in Korea, my sister Dana sends me this from NY: ”Well, yeah. You’re isolated somewhere in the world.” She says it in response to my wish that she can feel this […]