Alright, been a while since I shared some cute student pictures. As much as I loathe waking up at 630 in the am and spending my whole day with 5 year olds (I guess I shouldnt be a teacher anymore...)...
It has been a busy month in my world with lots of new frontiers forged in real life and with my blog! I have a featured blog on ajarn.com where I will be writing about my life in Thailand&n...
This is looking at you antique lovers and flea market junkies...I have found your Asian paradise! My friend lives near this temple and showed me around and I just had to take pictures and share it wi...
Lately some of my new favorite fruits from the market are in season and you can buy 1 kilo of many fresh, sweet delicacies for about a dollar. Fruit really is natures candy and I grew up wi...
Expat: v. - To give up residence in ones homeland.adj. - Exile. A person who is voluntarily absent from home or countryIts a funny thing being an expat. At first things are new and exciting...
I dont know what I would do if today wasnt Friday. This whole "being a teacher" thing is really draining and some days I just dont know if I can make it to the end of the week.But this week I...
Way back during the great floods of 2011 we were drifting around meeting new cool people and trying to stay afloat. We met some cool people on the beaches of Koh Samet (an island I also need to write...
For Songkran we bought super cheap tickets on Air Asia to head up to the small city of Chiang Mai in northwestern Thailand. I thought celebrating in Bangkok might be too crazy and Chiang Mai is known...
Its the biggest organized water fight in the world between thousands of adults. Its very wet, very drunk, a little bit dirty (they used moat water in Chiang Mai) and a LOT of fun! Songkran is the Tha...
April is the hottest month in Thailand (averaging 35 degrees C) and I am almost melting away at this point. Our school celebrated another random Buddhist holiday on a Friday so some teachers from my ...
In the last week I have - fallen down a sewer- hung out with Russian hookers- slept in the worlds most uncomfortable bed- flew through the jungle- played in the worlds biggest water fight - Eaten a l...
Its finally here! The much anticipated Thai New Year - Songkran! It is the worlds biggest water fight and I am flying right into the eye of the storm. Tomorrow afternoon we are flying an hour n...
My friend from Seoul and fellow blogger, Ruthie at Wanderings and Wonderings shared a pretty cool initiative with me by Easyjet about travel bloggers inspiration for doing what they do. It ...
It is no secret that I loved Seoul and Korea, I talk about how the transportation in Seoul is far superior to anything Bangkok has to offer fairly often, buy kimchi more than a white girl should and ...
Wow, it has been almost a month since I last posted, how sad! I started this blog to document, capture and share my memories of my expat lifestyle and I have been slacking. I have opened my laptop se...
Like the Mona Lisa, beautiful things always come in surprisingly small packages and this is true for the "Emerald Buddha" (which is technically made of Jade), the most precious Buddha in all ...
I moved into a new apartment last month and to get home I have to drive my motorbike through a long and windy road with green palm trees, fancy houses and food stalls to get to my small apartment tha...
農曆新年 Year of the Dragon -2012! The Lunar New Year is the most important celebration for traditional Chinese culture. It commemorates the first solar term for the new year and marks the end of wi...
I remember being a kid and asking my mom on Mothers day, why there was no childrens day? It doesnt seem fair that Mothers and Fathers get a day all for themselves, especially since, it seemed to me a...
Lets hop on a boat and head into town stopping at ancient temples along the way, with a colorful group of new friends and watch the spectacular fire works over the Bangkok skylne from the be...
With the floods finally over, we have been able to move back to Nonthaburi and school has finally resumed. I am teaching Kindergartners&n bsp;and am so far (mostly) loving it! My kids are at the ...
Way back when I began my travels in August (I have been floating around SE Asia for about a half a year, life could be worse) I had a twelve hour layover in Shanghai, China. I had never been to any p...
For many people the Thai floods were just another story in the news, and for many here in Thailand they came and went quickly. Unfortunately for thousands, including me, they were a very grim reality...
Recently did a guest interview with Jason from Life After Cubes (a great blog by two Americans currently in South Korea, check it out!) about the differences between teaching English in South Korea (...
I have been a resident of Thailand for a little over two months now, floating around the southern islands while the floods have ravaged central Thailand and the capital. With the floods finally "...
There is no greater sight when your hungry and kinda broke (and quite possibly a little drunk) than the orange and green neon from the brightly lit store you can find one or more of wi...
This is an amazing video shared with me by a good friend... literally cannot help but smile while watching and remember what an amazing place I am living! Taking one day at a time now, thats all I ca...
With our home still seized with floodwaters, we have been exploring the islands and beaches in Thailand like its our job and since I dont really have a job right now it kind of is. After a long ...
100, 25, 11, 4 - all important numbers in my life, but just a bunch of digits afterall...100 - this blog post is a landmark 25- how old I just turned 11.11.11 on this day I c...
Week three of hiding out from Bangkok from the flooding and boy are we lucky. We got out of our house just in time and the water is up to the knee INSIDE our house. So my little weekend away, when I ...
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