Kara Pyo loves words, holidays, walks around the neighborhood, embracing awkward conversations with her neighbors, and cheese. She began her overseas adventure teaching English in a small fishing town in Northeast China where she fell in love with everything in sight, including her future husband. She currently lives in Korea with her husband and young kids.
Our apartment is five stories above a major road in the city. When the windows are open in the spring and fall, the sound of cars zooming by becomes our...