3 Peaks, 2 Towns, 1 Coast

Day 4 I got a handful of hours of sleep in me. I had plans fall through, which led to my chaotic sleep schedule. You know, whatever for adventure. The coming crazies aside, today looked like it was going to be a good day. Like…

Jinju Namgang Lantern Festival

I’ll keep this one short. The gang and I transitioned from Busan to Jinju via bus for the 진주남강유등축제 (Jinju Namgnag Latern Festival). Basically, the trip was an Instagram jackpot… if only I had one. Nevertheless, the town is pretty cheap and there was tons of…

19th Annual Busan International Film Festival

As promised, I went to the 19회 부산국제영화제 (19th Annual Busan International Film Festival). In short, cinema dopeness. First off, I didn’t get to stay there as long as I wanted due to lack off Cinemaphile tickets, an upcoming midterm, and the fact that I…

Fuji Overnight

Waking up, I originally intended on going to the supermarket as early as possible to buy my stock of food to devour for the overnight climb. By some strange turn of events, I woke up earlier than the store opened. I probably should have checked…

Summer Sonic

Arctic Monkeys will perform at Osaka. ARCTIC MONKEYS WILL PERFORM AT OSAKA. Although I had various reasons for visiting Japan and its famous cities, Arctic Monkeys performing at Summer Sonic was probably the biggest selling point. Unable to go to Lollapalooza this year with my…

16th Jeongdongjin Independent Film Festival

There’s nothing better than taking a little escape right before your last week of classes for the semester. Ewha basically implied that by giving us a three-day weekend, which happened to be quite convenient because Diallo’s host invited us to the 제16회 정동진 독립 영화제 (16th…

Week 10: Fights, Fuji & Film

Sunday morning, homework still left over from missing a few days of classes from Ramadan struggles and an apparent lack of motivation after being bogged down by so many repetitive class hours. To make matters worse, it was the first time I missed the weekly…

First Hike

Hiking has slowly grown into a activity I’ve come to enjoy more and more. It started a bit in high school with light trails in the woodsy parts of South Jersey and easy paths on the AT. I even got a little in when I…

Week 2: Changing Pace

I haven’t been fully honest with you. Yes, I am at a Korean university learning Korean. Yet, everyday feels like I’m breaking an unspoken moral code by not only studying at an all-girl, Christian university, but I also live in 이화여자대학교 (Ewha Womans University). To reconcile…