Food, stickers, and an interesting taxi ride.
Category: Vignettes
Vignettes from November
This month’s vignettes feature transportation, state group updates, and some more about foreignness.
Vignettes About Being a Foreigner
Being a foreigner in Korea means I encounter a broad range of reactions. Living in a racially and culturally homogeneous society, I am quite obviously different. Sometimes I am met with great kindness, while other times I am treated like a child or an outsider. These are a few of the encounters I have had, related to my foreignness.
Vignettes from September
A series of brief encounters from the first half of the semester. This month’s mishmash of topics includes SpongeBob Squarepants, life as a foreigner, loneliness, North Korea, and Jell-O.
Janine Perri 