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20221230 ⛄️ Listen, listen, hear me out. Pikachu is building a--listen carefully--he's building a ❄️Snowlax❄️ ___ I am ready to stress Logan out with mom jokes. . . . . . #seoul #iseoulu #visitseoul #korea #korean #koreanstyle #koreanmakeup #koreanbeauty #koreastyle #korealife #koreabyme #koreaexpat #데이트 #internationalcouple #부부스타그램 #mixedcouple #seoul🇰🇷 #expatinkorea #expat #travel #seoulkorea #크리스마스 #포켓몬 #pokemon #christmas #imagineyourkorea #pikachu #seoul_korea #국내여행 (at 스타필드 하남) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmxZqfCBCEo/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#seoul #iseoulu #visitseoul #korea #korean #koreanstyle #koreanmakeup #koreanbeauty #koreastyle #korealife #koreabyme #koreaexpat #데이트 #internationalcouple #부부스타그램 #mixedcouple #seoul🇰🇷 #expatinkorea #expat #travel #seoulkorea #크리스마스 #포켓몬 #pokemon #christmas #imagineyourkorea #pikachu #seoul_korea #국내여행

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20221221🐚 Mom are you sure that [sand] is sanitary? It looks questionable to me! - probably Logan (Tarzan) ____ After encountering so many kids at my work that only had one day to rest and the rest of the week are jam-packed with classes, tutors, homework, and how tired and desperate to just play they were I knew I didn't want to do that to my child. But I can't lie now that Logan is here I see the competition that drives parents to do that much clearer. I still will strive not to unless he wants it or needs it and instead I want to teach him all I can organically. One of the first things I want to teach him is about nature through experience and to love animals which I didn't think I had to since I thought kids are naturally born loving them. I mean my siblings and I spent our vacations at our aunt's who rescues dogs and Colombian wildlife. My mom takes home every little stray cat she sees and all my high school classmates have more than one pet they adore. So you can imagine my surprise when T told me he was not fond of birds, or big dogs (it has been a learning curve) or at work when more than one child told me that aside from kittens and bunnies they don't like animals, I was literally the shocked Pikachu meme. I guess it's because of the lack of exposure to animals, and native wildlife they can naturally encounter. That's why it's important to me to teach most importantly of all to respect them and their habitat even if it's as small and seemingly unimportant as a seashell. For now, he's absolutely obsessed with Bean so we're doing okay. I can't say I'm a wildlife warrior since I have much to learn and change myself but we're on our way. . . . #seoul #iseoulu #visitseoul #korea #korean #koreanstyle #koreanmakeup #koreanbeauty #koreastyle #korealife #koreabyme #koreaexpat #expatlife #데이트 #internationalcouple #데이트코스 #국네여행 #seoul🇰🇷 #expatinkorea #expat #travel #seoulkorea #gangreung #바다 #kpop #육아 #imagineyourkorea #강릉 #koreatravel (at 강릉) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmaaBgepkjz/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#seoul #iseoulu #visitseoul #korea #korean #koreanstyle #koreanmakeup #koreanbeauty #koreastyle #korealife #koreabyme #koreaexpat #expatlife #데이트 #internationalcouple #데이트코스 #국네여행 #seoul🇰🇷 #expatinkorea #expat #travel #seoulkorea #gangreung #바다 #kpop #육아 #imagineyourkorea #강릉 #koreatravel

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It's funny because the day I went to watch encanto I found out I was pregnant. So like Dos Oruguitas hit haaarrd

Hello! It's been a while.

In all honesty I've just been exhausted mostly. "Kim it's been like six months" yes, indeed. But keeping up my motivation that feels like it drops as quickly and suddenly as a rollercoaster is exhausting and I'm struggling with school.

That aside there has been a lot of updates. Some good, some not so good, some confusing , some irrelevant, etc. About my parents I really don't know. I talk to my sister's dad maybe once every two months, and i miss him. Or a guess missed the man he was before all this and i don't know the man he's become now, but that's okay I guess he doesn't know me either.

On good news. I watched Encanto this week and I'm still reeling on the beauty of that movie and the beautiful, magical feeling that is seeing your people, your country your culture on screen. AND IT'S NOT AN ACTION-DRUG-CARTEL- WHITE-SAVIOR MOVIE??? AND IT'S DISNEY!! kids all around the world are going to see my country how i grew up seeing it?? It's addictive, I want more and I want everyone no matter the country to have this feeling.

Physically I am pretty white. 100% Colombian but absolutely white, so seeing myself Physically in Disney movies wasn't a problem, but seeing ME??? My culture? Nothing beats that feeling.

And look I can talk about this movie and all the little details like the "lip pointing" and Agustín saying "Miercoles" for ages and the characters and how Luisa is an icon for all older sisters particularly ethnic, for Days! But tis not the time

Anyway yes, I hope I can come back soon.

#encanto #disney #pregnancy #dos oruguitas #disney encanto #life #life update #colombia

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Not going to Lie most of the reason I'm back is because sometimes I want to share things other social media doesn't allow for.

For example, I really wanted to share that I recently realized that my father's ashes would, in fact, NOT be in a little Ziplock bag stored in a church for me to just grab.

I was talking to my friend saying how weird my mom was around death considering I have known my dad was M-worded when I was a baby, since I could remember. I'm very nonchalant about it. "Tell me about your dad" "oh I wouldn't know, he got Klled as a 19 y/O teen dad in Colombia." Still, my mom would only tell me about family members passing after the fact and I have never been to a funeral. This comes to the point that I have asked her to take me to see my dad's ashes many times but she never did.

As I was saying that to my friend It hit me, like one of Wednesday's visions, that all my life I had imagined seeing my dad's ashes as literally that: going to the church, standing in front of a file cabinet and holding (and swishing it around) a little ziplock bag full of ashes. It wasn't until that moment that I realized how 1. Weird that was 2. I have seen urns, and ash placements in cemeteries on tv, so why did it never occur to me that that's most likely how my dad's laid to rest? Idk 🤷‍♀️ there's probably a lot to unpack there but I'm no psychologist.

#thoughts #morbid #life #spooky #rant #random thoughts #random

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I am back. It has been a while but so much has happened I don't even know where to begin. Most of the reason for being MIA was that I was overwhelmed with school full time and work full time. Now I don't work, but I have a 4 month old baby and will start school again next semester so lets see how that goes

#living in korea #korea #seoul #living in seoul #life #update #MIA #back #life update

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Hello! It's been a while.

In all honesty I've just been exhausted mostly. "Kim it's been like six months" yes, indeed. But keeping up my motivation that feels like it drops as quickly and suddenly as a rollercoaster is exhausting and I'm struggling with school.

That aside there has been a lot of updates. Some good, some not so good, some confusing , some irrelevant, etc. About my parents I really don't know. I talk to my sister's dad maybe once every two months, and i miss him. Or a guess missed the man he was before all this and i don't know the man he's become now, but that's okay I guess he doesn't know me either.

On good news. I watched Encanto this week and I'm still reeling on the beauty of that movie and the beautiful, magical feeling that is seeing your people, your country your culture on screen. AND IT'S NOT AN ACTION-DRUG-CARTEL- WHITE-SAVIOR MOVIE??? AND IT'S DISNEY!! kids all around the world are going to see my country how i grew up seeing it?? It's addictive, I want more and I want everyone no matter the country to have this feeling.

Physically I am pretty white. 100% Colombian but absolutely white, so seeing myself Physically in Disney movies wasn't a problem, but seeing ME??? My culture? Nothing beats that feeling.

And look I can talk about this movie and all the little details like the "lip pointing" and Agustín saying "Miercoles" for ages and the characters and how Luisa is an icon for all older sisters particularly ethnic, for Days! But tis not the time

Anyway yes, I hope I can come back soon.

#living in korea #korea #living in seoul #culture #encanto #disney encanto #encanto disney #colombia #update #life update

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Hello!

I'm the anon that said she wanted to check on you, I'm glad you feel safe enough to tell us your problems. I'm so sorry for how your well step-dad is acting towards your mom, I'm sure she's a brilliant lady and doesn't any of this. Again, I would like to say that you're not alone, I've had a similar situation with my parents, my dad went batshit on my mom and said things to the whole about her and his daughters ( my sister and I ), but in my case my mom didn't want to take the humiliation and she divorced his ass.

I hope gets better soon and it's nothing more serious than sniffles. 😊

It's okay to complain and want to speak about something that's clearly wrong, it does not mean you hate the place, it just means you're trying to make it better by making people aware, specially if it's your home and birthplace of your future children.

I'm no one to judge because well I come from Brazil and I could sit here and tell you how much of a mess my country is and I don't see anyone saying a thing, asking for help but it's fine ( not really, but oh well ).

I decided to come out of anonymity to say that, you seem like an amazing person and if you want someone to vent to, just to talk and share weird humour, I'm here.

I hope you have a good day, keeping yourself and your family healthy! ☺️

Hi!

I might be overly sensitive but this really did make me tear up.

Thank you so much for your kind words, support and understanding! I really really appreciate it. 💕

You are such a kind kind person and i hope you stay safe and healthy too!

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Hey, how are you?

Just wanted to come in here and check on you. I hope you're doing alright and having an amazing time in Korea because you deserve it 🥰

Hi hi!

I'm sorry it took me a while to answer we weren't home this weekend.

Thank you so much for asking and I hope I don't say more than what you're interested in, but I'll take this opportunity to give an update since I'd been planning on doing so.

Generally, in I guess a nuclear family sense we're good, I'm happy and healthy. Bean (our cat) has had a few sniffles these past weeks, I've been hesitant to take her to the vet because before it started I took her for her eyes and she was extremely stressed, so since her sniffles come and go I'm hoping its just allergies, like me.

My parent's situation is, confusing tiring and it angers me. Because it hurts seeing my mom like that. She's lost so much weight it has us all a bit scared. But I know my mom, she's strong and I know she wouldn't do anything to put herself in danger and hurt us. She's trying her best to stay healthy but heartbreak and the situation my dad has her in is naturally taking a toll. I say situation because he has us all in a standstill "I'm not asking for a divorce but let me just live as a bachelor for a min until I decide but fuck marriage counseling" type of vibe. As far as I'm concerned, even if by some miracle comes back, he is nothing to me but my sister's dad and for her sake, I'll be cordial.

In Korea. Well, let me preface this by saying as we all know this is a generalization, and we all know there is not one country out there that is perfect. The pandemic has gotten out of control in the past few weeks. Since all this started this is the first time the government implemented a level 4 warning on the situation. I've been complaining from the beginning because... if they had done this since we started we could have avoided this but the government has been too busy keeping the image they got at the beginning of the pandemic. Sadly they're also have been scapegoating foreigners a lot.

We all understand it's a very homogeneous country, there's resistance to change, naturally especially given the history. However, they are very stubborn and don't like being told that they're doing something wrong. It has always been a thing (pre-covid) where certain establishments don't let foreigners in, just because. And with no anti-discrimination laws here, there's nothing much we can do. If we complain we get called racists and go back to our countries. At the beginning of the year, they tried to get all ex-pats to get the test because of an outbreak in a dormitory that housed foreign farmers instead of realizing the housing conditions and health regulations for the workers were subpar. After international backlash, they retracted the order.

Sadly this month a few foreigners got sick and reignited the belief we are the danger. So people were being pretty rude saying we're the problem, we're reckless and it's our fault knowing very well that just as foreigners would go out young Koreans were also right next to them in these places doing the same. Also not to mention just a week before this whole mess there was a HUGE worker protest in downtown Seoul, with over 8.000 people even though the government asked them not to. We don't have many vaccines either so it's all a huge mess. It's kinda funny because young women are probably the demographic that has been vaccinated the least (not counting teens or children of course ) but they somehow still mention the lack of births. Like please, if you want babies please care a little more for those who can birth them.

Again, please understand that complaining about something in Korea doesn't mean I hate it. I love it, and I can't see myself living anywhere else, especially because I have hope it will get better especially for the sake of my future children (I've heard about a lot of half Korean people going back to their birth country because of how they've been treated). I can also sit here complain about Colombia as well. All countries have something wrong, the thing is how they react to that criticism. At the risk of being controversial, seeing how a lot of people (obviously not all) react and act in these cases it feels like this is Korea's generation that is akin to boomers.

Once again, this isn't me trying to bash Korea, but just as Americans do, if we don't talk about what's wrong and what hurts people in a country there will be no change. But I mention this again because TikTok, Korean TikTok (both the ex-pat side and the native side) is very scary. You can't say anything someone doesn't agree with because it's a war. For me, it seems very toxic, so I hope it doesn't leak into Tumblr.

I'm happy to talk about the positive side as always. But for now, I needed to let it out.

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Alguien hace eso?

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OH MY GODS THEY SAID IT

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The hairstylist near our house insist I have curly/wavy hair and that thats why they won't give me the haircuts I ask for.

But..if so I've been lied to all my life.

But could also explain why I was born with my dads hair (black and curly)

Anyway if anyone knows where I can get curly hair products in Korea or what products to even try out just so I can see, I would greatly appreciate it.

#korea #hair #natural hair #hair care

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Why do men....men...

My dad or well my ex-stepdad has destroyed my mom. He lies to her and he turns around and lies to others about her.

She is the shell of my mom. And he is a person I never knew.

But I just want it to be known that if anything happens to my mom it's his fault. He probably won't do anything to her, but her broke her and if anything happens to her it's his fault. And I want him to know that it's his fault but I can't. For my sister, I can't. For my mom and her hope, I can't.

But he is dead to me. It hurts the most because part of still loves him. My mom still loves him, my sister needs him. So it hurts.

So while he's out there wearing flashy clothes, playing his saxophone, pretending nothing is wrong. And lying about who my mom is. We're here destroyed. And I'm angry. And hurt.

I want my mom. I want to be with her.

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Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

Look buddy, i’m just trying to make it to Friday.

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my frogs w burnout series

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T (my husband) still won't let go of the fact that I couldn't recognize him in the street one day but I can recognize each Exo member by their voice. In my defense I've "known" them longer.

#exo #kpop #exol