Hello! It’s been quite a while since I’ve written a blog post or even thought about the blog. If you read the last post you know that I’m currently on summer holidays. Last Sunday I arrived back from travelling around Seoul and Paju.Since moving to Korea this was probably the first ‘touristy’ trip I’d taken,…
Those of you who read my last blog know that I am currently on holiday. So what did I get up to during my first week of summer break? Friday: There weren’t any official lessons today but we did have a short closing ceremony through ZOOM with all the other students enrolled at the language centre.…
Continue reading ➞ Summary of my First Week on Holiday in Korea.
Friday the 24th of July officially marked five months living in Korea. It also marked the end of my first semester doing my Korean Intensive Language program. It’s hard to believe that I’ve been in Korea on my own for five months. Today, I’ve decided to give you a short recap of some of the…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsKT6gmk8iw Happy Friday everyone!! I hope you all had a great week. Here is the YouTube video that goes along with the Busan Skyline Blog that I wrote a few weeks back. Check it out and give it a like and subscribe to my channel for more videos on my travels!
In Fiji, at the end of a busy week of exams, we would often go to Chatime and enjoy some bubble tea or coffee smoothies and if we were hungry we would get a meal and share. In Korea, it's not that different. After this week’s mock exam my friends and I went to a…
View from the Restaurant After a long week of doing mock tests and vocabulary tests, we decided to go to Seomyeon and get some dinner. We were planning to go to a buffet place that served Western food. However, when we arrived at the restaurant there was an 18 table queue and we were really…
Since you’ve been reading my Korea blogs for a few months now you can probably tell I got through to the final round. When I read the announcement I still couldn’t believe that I had actually got the scholarship and that I was going to be spending the next 5 years in Korea studying the…
Continue reading ➞ GKS application process part 3: Actually getting to korea
Last week I turned 19, and it was my first time celebrating my birthday away from my friends. Because I was away from my usual group, I wasn’t really that keen to celebrate my birthday without everyone. However, I was fortunate to have made some amazing friends here in Korea that made my 19th birthday…
I've been meaning to post this for a few months now but never got around to it. Since some students are starting to do research and prepare for the September application round, I thought I would continue the series. So this is what happened after I got through the 2nd selection round. --- About…
On Saturday afternoon my mum messages me because she hadn't heard from me all day. ‘Hey Bua, what’s the plan today?’ She was probably expecting that I went to a café with my friends or I went to the beach or something touristy and fun like I do most weekends. ‘I’m at a Buddhist Temple,…
