Sending Snail Mail to the Marines

I’ve been writing letters every day since Tuesday cox Jay’s dad said that they will call to let us know the address and Jay’s trainee number so that we can send snail mail to him. I even went out and bought those pretty notepads with cute envelopes!
Finally, the address came, and I managed to send [...]

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Internet Letters

ROKMC (Republic of Korea Marine Corps) has a service for the families/loved ones/friends of the new trainees – Internet Letters.
We log in to their website and we can write a maximum of 2 letters a day, and ROKMC will print those letters on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Obviously there’s a limit to how long the [...]

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Republic of Korea Marine Corps

The day finally arrived when I had to send him off.
We left the resort around 11am and drove down to Pohang. The ride suddenly seemed so short. I held on to his hand; I didn’t want to let it go. At the camp, we were ushered into an auditorium and we were briefed there on [...]

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Singapore Plog 1: Friends&Family

Outing with Bronte friends! It’s so nice to be able to bring our friendship from Toronto 15006km back to Singapore :)

I missed KAP! My childhood place. I still remember they had the choo-choo train going around McDonald and the HUGE playground, which of course, was like 10 years ago ㅠㅠ But seriously, KAP mac breakfast [...]

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