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cdi training week / eternal suffering

CDI Training Week is honestly no joke. Since I had to commute from my apartment in Seongbuk to Olympic Park, which already took a good hour, I had to wake up at 6:15AM to get ready and catch the train. The training started at 8:30AM and officially ended at 5:30PM, but let's be real. It went on further.

pre-training cdi, packing, and to-dos after arriving in incheon/seoul

For Chungdahm Institute (CDI), everyone is required to undergo a week-long training period before they are officially hired and can start their jobs. Even before this in-person training hosted in Seoul, we have to take an online pre-training course and pass it.

It was like taking the online TEFL course all over again. [Photo Source]

nyc visa

The visa process for the NYC South Korean Consulate was actually super easy. I completely over-prepared, but it's better than being unprepared, right?

rosacea triggers

This is more of a post to help my poor memory. After a dermatologist visit today, he said that I have rosacea and should avoid the following list. Let's see if I will actually be able to follow his advice...

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quick packing check-list

From what we gathered online and from our own experiences, here are a few things that we are going to bring over to Korea:
Time for those international differences to come popping out! [Photo Source]

recommended recruiters


So! Let's begin with how we actually managed to get our jobs to become English instructors in South Korea.

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intro post: cal



23, sino american. she/they. pan. libra.

history:
  • - manhattan 🗽 → fuzhou → brooklyn 🏠 →  seoul ✈
  • - milk tea lover 🍵  + lattes + playlists (i've been listening to this one for a while now)
  • - too much stationary, not enough room; collects stickers, cute pens 🖋, notebooks 📚, and sticky notes
  • - fake aesthetics (check out that tumblr) 
  • - animals are my secret joys in life 🐾
  • - splashed in blood way too often in this life

stuff i did / liked:
  • - got pulled into esports fandom + did undergrad thesis on it
  • - did grad thesis on anti-blackness in asian american hip hop 🎧
  • - enjoy trying to write fiction and poetry, am not very good at doing either
  • - most influential poets of my youth: warsan shire and richard siken

passionate about:
  • - environment/sustainability stuff (talk dirty 2 me about sustainable cities vs. neoliberal capitalism, tyvm) 
  • - architecture + cityscapes + urban spaces + dérives
  • - art... of all kinds... traditional, photography, digital, sculpture, landscaping, etc. 


english instructor credits:
  • - got a tefl + teyl (all online though)

recent south korean pop culture stuff: 
  • - misaeng is my favorite k-drama + the only one that i actually was interested enough to really try to finish 
  • - bts is currently my favorite k-pop group 
  • - wheesung's insomnia mv was the first thing that actually really got me into k-pop, though i hung around the edges of it since 2007 
  • - a friend/decade-long childhood crush introduced me to big bang's haru haru mv + big bang was my first k-pop fandom
  • - nell is my favorite k-indie band (x)
  • - i listen to younha's run quite often when i'm sad
  • - i am terrible at the korean language, pls tutor me )': 

future goals:
  • - help, save me
  • - in this economy, my degrees are pretty useless



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