A journey.
August marked the completion of my first year abroad and one year since I cut my hand which required my first-ever hospital stay and surgery. Quite the adventure abroad I'm having. You can read a little about that experience here. How has my hand healed up? Pretty good actually. I do feel pain from the scar… Continue reading Hand Injury Anniversary
I arrived back to Yangon the day before school started. Big mistake! But within days of arriving, things started to feel like "home". I'm still working to get into a routine now that I live so close to school but it will come in due time. Living in Yangon means that I don't have a… Continue reading Quirky Things About Living in Yangon
I’m not travel expert but I have had my share of long layovers and in most recent times, long flights. It took me two days to travel home at the beginning of summer, with the longest flight being 15 hours which is second place for the longest single flight I’ve ever flown of 18 hours.… Continue reading Tips For Surviving Long Flights
My mum always used to talk about the importance of exposure when I was in teen, and I with my limited life knowledge but know-it-all attitude agreed. I always thought about it from the point of travel exposure. The reality is, however, that for most people they won't live too far from where they grew… Continue reading Why Exposure Is So Important?
Now that the madness and stress of all the end of year school activities are done, I can breathe a sigh of relief (kind of). I made it through my first year abroad in an international school. The first year in a school is kind of weird because you have to find a balance in… Continue reading First Year Abroad Abroad
The nature of working abroad in an international school is much like being an international student abroad: when you start, everything is new, exciting and fresh. It takes a little to settle in and you cling to your fellow newbies like a life vest because it feels like you're in open water. You spend the… Continue reading When People Leave
This past month, I painted my first canvas painting! I've never considered myself to be an artist by any means (even though I did do Culinary Arts) but I do enjoy the arts. I like the idea of art. In reality, my artistic abilities... they ain't it! Ability and interest are irrelevant if it's not… Continue reading Drink & Draw and Other Things To Do
This morning, as I was on my way out to grab breakfast I noticed a mess in the corner of my room where I keep my aloe plant. One of the leaves committed suicide...well that's what it looked like because all the other aloe leaves were fine. Another leaf seemed like it was making the… Continue reading There’s a Message in it Somewhere…
I wish I could record up close the interesting dynamics of how the rich, the poor, the expats and the inbetweens live here in Yangon. The other day, like many days when I take Grab taxi from work, I watched the people hanging out at the beautiful park across from Myanmar plaza. Mostly couples and… Continue reading The Haves and the Have Nots
I've just recently turned 30, and from what I've heard, the 30s are lit and I'm looking forward to the lit years, but in the meantime, I have to point out how inadequate of an adult I feel sometimes. I'm calling it delayed adulting syndrome: a condition in which the feeling of being an adult… Continue reading Delayed Adulting Syndrome
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