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I Went to an Erotic Dance Workshop but I Don’t Feel More Sexy

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It’s twilight now and I’m standing in front of an empty chair, a little chilly and nervous, wearing only a bra and tiny shorts - called ‘booty shorts’, as I had learnt earlier that day. I’m surrounded by other scantily-clad women, mainly in their mid- to late-20s, also waiting by their chairs. The room is dark, thankfully, with tealight candles and the fragrance of whatever was burnt and wafted around to ‘cleanse the energy’ hanging thickly in the air. The men walk in. About two thirds of them are the partners of the women and the other third are strangers, carefully curated by the workshop facilitators for single women and for those who opted to undertake this ritual with an unknown partner. They sit down, the music starts, and the instructions begin. Tonight I am playing the role of the seductress, in order to own my sexuality, connect with the ‘divine feminine’ energy (a concept completely divorced from gender) within all of us, and reconcile my sexuality with a higher consci...
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Seoul Travel Guide Part 2: Snacks for Lonely Expats

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Today I interrupt our regular programming to talk about something very important:  snacks!  snack food haul from my 2017 trip to Jeju Island I love snacks. I like to think of myself as a snack connoisseur of sorts. I was initially planning to incorporate this information into my  Seoul travel guide , but then realised that I have enough photos and overly strong opinions on snacks for its own post. My relationship with snacks goes way back...back to the orphanage it seems! My question is, does this mean that they had an abundance of cookies and doughnuts etc. at my Korean orphanage in the 80s?? So let's just say that I have a verified sweet tooth and a legitimate need for tasty snacks to help me generally deal with life¹ and that need only intensifies as a lonely single person in a foreign country 😅. The intensity of my cravings for Western food, or more accurately Western comfort food, while living in Korea surprised me. I was fully aware that I wa...
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Miss Potato's Seoul Travel Guide

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Hello dear handful of readers out there in the blogosphere! Recently I undertook a monthly blogging challenge with a lovely new friend (you can check out her blog  here ) in the spirit of new year's resolutions and other follies. Although a monthly commitment seems light on, considering I blogged exactly zero times in 2018, it's nothing to scoff at! Another friend just told me that they are planning to visit Seoul later this year and I promised to give some recommendations. So here it is: my long overdue travel guide, January blog challenge, and, er, triumphant return to blogging! 😅😅 man I love this city We all want different things from travel. As I've been to Korea  too many  multiple times since 2010 and lived there for (not quite) a year, I've crossed off most of the touristy stuff (except Noryangjin fish market and  live octopus ...). My favourite thing to do in Seoul is wander around cute and/or hipster neighbourhoods, eventually stumble i...
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Reunion seven years later

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Today I'm going to talk about birth family¹ reunion. Actually, I've been trying to write this post for a couple of weeks now and it proved harder than expected...I kept looking at the words on the screen and they didn't sound quite like me. I think it's because it's hard to write openly about these things without fear of judgment of some kind, from my family, other adoptees, complete strangers, or even myself. I've been "in reunion", as they say, since 2010 and one of the (many) reasons I moved to Korea was to spend more time with my birth family.
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Seven years later

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Very dark picture of me featuring a tiny Namsan Tower in the background. Seven years after my first trip back to Korea, I'm living here. 
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