Northern Vietnam
Well, we’re off to the races now. On Wednesday, August 26 we said goodbye to our students, packed up, and shipped out of Korea and on to Vietnam.
Katelyn and Gregory Haskins find their way through—and around—the world
Well, we’re off to the races now. On Wednesday, August 26 we said goodbye to our students, packed up, and shipped out of Korea and on to Vietnam.
It looks like our time in Korea is done (“Teacher, finish!” as our kids would say). We’ve spent nearly 365 days here and now it’s time for something new. We could be responsible and head home to start job hunting, grad school, and/or real life, but instead we are going to take our money and run. We are young and stupid and to be honest, we have never been under the delusion that we are going to live forever. So here’s what’s next:
Okay, so we admit it. We have been less than stellar bloggers as of late. But you will just have to forgive us because, you see, we are on the home stretch of our time here in Korea. With less than two weeks left here we have been busy trip planning, packing up, saying our goodbyes to departing friends, and collecting all the necessary visas, vaccines, and malaria pills we may need for the next four months. We did, however, take a break from all the mad scrambling last week to cross the East Sea (or the Sea of Japan, depending on your perspective).
I’m not sure this year’s Spring Festival (a.k.a. Chinese New Year, Lunar New Year) quite lived up to it’s name, falling in late January, but the four-day weekend gave us a great chance to finally go and see China—a piece of it, at least. Read on