Since Pete and I have decided to return to Korea I have started to start blogging again! It’s a great way to stay in contact will all my friends and family and let them know what we’re up to!
fall in Korea
I’ll start with the million dollar question which we got asked numerous of times “why are you going back there again?” Well the short version is that there are not that many jobs* for University grads in Canada at the moment. And the long version that risks me getting into some hot water with my family is that there isn’t much there for us back home.
Being two young and adventurous people with little responsibilities it was incredibly hard being back in Canada for the summer. We found jobs after a few weeks and we gave it an honest chance, but as the weeks passed our savings dwindled, our happiness went out the door and we quickly realized something had to change in order to maintain our sanity. I feel bad for having put my best friend, Alaina, through those times. Sure, she was glad to see us after being gone for 2 years and would never admit we were Debby downers but… we were. We didn’t adjust very well, we started fighting and bickering and I would have to go to the gym in the middle of the night just to escape my thoughts of how sad we actually were. It was nothing short of a miracle when our directors emailed us and asked us to come back to Korea.
Pete’s family was ecstatic for us, my grandmother insisted I could “find full time work at Tim Hortans and make decent money to live off of” and Alaina gave me the silent treatment for a few days. We love our family (please note that I am including Alaina in this section because she truly is my family) so much but if it’s one thing we learned while being away is that you can love people from a far. Love does cross oceans and seas, it flies over mountains and swims through rivers. I may not be there when Alaina’s little boy goes to sleep every night, but my love is always there.
So we decided to accept the offer to go back and give Korea another go around. After all the hard good-byes, we made our way back to what we now consider “home”. It is the one place we have spent the longest in the 4 years we have been dating, it’s the place we are most comfortable, have the most freedom and have a life. We are extremely happy here and love our lives. Pete and I joke that Korea would be perfect for us is we could just uproot all our friends and family and bring them here. The stress free life and the decent wages have allowed us to travel and accomplish some of our goals that would never have been possible back in Canada.
We know that we won’t be here forever and that one day Canada will offer us more than Korea but for now Korea offers us everything we need and although our friends and family miss us, I hope they are happy for us.
Pete and I rocking traditional Korean Clothes
my year of noodles 