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Renewing is not what I expected it to be – Becoming 지혜 (Ji Hye)
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Becoming 지혜 (Ji Hye). My time as a Fulbright ETA in Korea. Renewing is not what I expected it to be. May 28, 2015. August 13, 2015. People typically share only the happy parts of their lives in public, especially on social media. In the Fulbright Korea community, this has actually been a point of contention (this year); the first time our entire cohort gathered at fall conference, the realization many people had was: Wow. So I’m not the only one who’s struggling. I started a post on how I actually like.
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Reading List – Becoming 지혜 (Ji Hye)
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Becoming 지혜 (Ji Hye). My time as a Fulbright ETA in Korea. Throughout college (and for a lot of high school) I complained about not having enough time to read for fun. Well no more! My goal is to be intentional about leaving space for reading (and not just Korean dramas). Occupy Korea. For. First is a list of books on Korea. Further below is a list of books I’ve read in Korea. Korea: The Impossible Country – Daniel Tudor. Please Look After Mom – Shin Kyung-Sook. The Old Garden – Hwang Sok-Young. And the ...
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May 2015 – Becoming 지혜 (Ji Hye)
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Becoming 지혜 (Ji Hye). My time as a Fulbright ETA in Korea. Renewing is not what I expected it to be. May 28, 2015. August 13, 2015. People typically share only the happy parts of their lives in public, especially on social media. In the Fulbright Korea community, this has actually been a point of contention (this year); the first time our entire cohort gathered at fall conference, the realization many people had was: Wow. So I’m not the only one who’s struggling. I started a post on how I actually like.
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March 2015 – Becoming 지혜 (Ji Hye)
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Becoming 지혜 (Ji Hye). My time as a Fulbright ETA in Korea. Once upon a time, there lived the most delicious crab…. March 27, 2015. April 21, 2015. So one Saturday, my host family and I headed to Ulsan (about one and a half hours from Gimhae) for a crab feast. You HAVE to eat king crab in the winter, when it’s tastiest, so we stragglers were pushing it by going in mid-March. Our first victims…. A 2kg king crab was 76,000 or around $74! But I’m pretty sure we had snow crab. Hopefully the price wasn’t a...
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Reflections on Round Two – Becoming 지혜 (Ji Hye)
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Becoming 지혜 (Ji Hye). My time as a Fulbright ETA in Korea. Reflections on Round Two. August 15, 2015. August 15, 2015. I miss that enthusiasm, where although teaching certainly wasn’t effortless, being in Korea was. By the end of the year, not so. I’ve let a lot of things dampen my experience, but in my second year, I’d like to wake up and make the most of my time in Korea. These are some broad goals (but mostly reflections) for my second grant year. I’ve spent time being irritated, shocked, angry ...
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August 2015 – Becoming 지혜 (Ji Hye)
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Becoming 지혜 (Ji Hye). My time as a Fulbright ETA in Korea. An Informational First Post of the Year. August 25, 2015. August 25, 2015. I’m back in Korea. At a new school, living with a new host family, and teaching the first few classes of the semester. Clearly a blog post is in order. Last year. To be starting anew in that regard isn’t so fun. Reflections on Round Two. August 15, 2015. August 15, 2015. I miss that enthusiasm, where although teaching certainly wasn’t effortless, being in Korea was&#...
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Final Dinner 2015 – Becoming 지혜 (Ji Hye)
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Becoming 지혜 (Ji Hye). My time as a Fulbright ETA in Korea. July 15, 2015. July 15, 2015. On July 4th, Fulbright Korea hosted our final dinner. This is the last time in the year that the whole group gets together, although since it isn’t required, we were. Missing a few faces. That weekend I went up to Seoul with Nadia, an ETA in Busan, and we stayed, shopped and ate delicious things together. Unfortunately, I’d felt queasy all day. My host mom told me to have some juk. We ended up at a burger place, did ...
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July 2015 – Becoming 지혜 (Ji Hye)
https://becomingjihye.wordpress.com/2015/07
Becoming 지혜 (Ji Hye). My time as a Fulbright ETA in Korea. July 15, 2015. July 15, 2015. On July 4th, Fulbright Korea hosted our final dinner. This is the last time in the year that the whole group gets together, although since it isn’t required, we were. Missing a few faces. That weekend I went up to Seoul with Nadia, an ETA in Busan, and we stayed, shopped and ate delicious things together. Unfortunately, I’d felt queasy all day. My host mom told me to have some juk. We ended up at a burger place, did ...
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Staying Late and Teaching Happiness – Becoming 지혜 (Ji Hye)
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Becoming 지혜 (Ji Hye). My time as a Fulbright ETA in Korea. Staying Late and Teaching Happiness. June 26, 2015. June 26, 2015. It used to be discouraging to be leaving school when it’s dark outside, but it’s something you adapt to. But one day I walked down the school steps to see my principal, still at school after 8pm! We were both surprised to see each other and had the same question – what are you still doing here? While he, being the principal, went for a blunt, what are you doing here? Another teach...
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December 2014 – Becoming 지혜 (Ji Hye)
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Becoming 지혜 (Ji Hye). My time as a Fulbright ETA in Korea. School Festival on Christmas Eve. December 31, 2014. March 15, 2015. I missed it. Because of the stomach flu. I only got to see the fliers, which were designed by talented students. Those are their actual uniforms. December 31, 2014. March 15, 2015. Until I experience it again, the sound of 30 high school girls chanting their class name is what sports day sounds like to me. The two teams walked calmly toward the center of the field, one girl at t...
