My life teaching, traveling and learning
When I first came to Thailand I was told by a random woman to try and get a position at a private school. I wouldn't realize how useful that advice would be until months later.
Over the past 6 months I've been in Southeast Asia for five of them. At this point, I've been here so long that I'm no longer a tourist, which is good because that was never my plan. Last May I had an idea to come teach English and here I sit a year later with a plan [...]
I spent the month of January teaching English in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), Vietnam. The decision to go to Vietnam wasn't a spectacular revelation, nor was it a trip I planned on taking. Thailand's bordering countries are Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar. Laos is a bit too untouched for me, Cambodia is a bit too [...]
After 32 hours of travel, three continents, four countries, five cities, two trains and one taxi I arrived in Philadelphia after accidentally spending three months in Southeast Asia. In three months time I traveled to eight cities in Thailand: Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Phuket, Koh Phi Phi, Krabi, Pai, Phitsanulok and Kamphaeng Phet. And I spent [...]
