Teachers Share their Experiences While Living Abroad!

Volunteering is great!  Not only are you helping others but you are also helping yourself. Through volunteering you can gain new skills and knowledge, meet new and interesting people, and you get to change your routine.

Being a social work major, I greatly enjoy helping others. I volunteered a lot in the U.S., but after coming to teach in Korea I found it was a lot more challenging to find opportunities. So, today I would like to share my experiences of volunteering in Korea, and hopefully give you some ideas about where you can help.

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Tags: things to do on weekend, Volunteering, Volunteer, Weekend activities in Korea

It's been almost four weeks since I welcomed Choco into my home.  For several weeks prior, I messaged back and forth with a teacher living in Seoul who had been stopped on the street by a Korean man, while walking her own dog, who asked (more like begged) her to find a new owner for three year old chocolate brown, toy poodle, Choco.  Choco had been chained to a door and apparently, was abused by said owner.  She needed a home where she would be loved (and trained).

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Tags: living in Korea, pets in Korea, Volunteering

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Tags: seoul, Korea, Volunteering, North Korea