misspotatocrisp

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...

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.

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.