Author Archives: alextemple24

It’s been a while since I last posted, but it’s for a good reason! No one wants to hear about how I spent my quarantine reading books and watching movies. As soon as I got out of quarantine, I had to hit the ground running to get my life sorted out before school began. I’veContinue reading “A New Foreign Experience”

It’s finally time to bring this blog back to life! In exactly two weeks, I’ll be in my new home – Taipei, Taiwan. I had no idea that this is where I’d end up, but I’m excited to start my new adventure. To give you a sense of where I’ll be, Taiwan is a littleContinue reading “New Country, New Name, Same Blog”

It’s taken me a while to be able to open this WordPress app to write about this seemingly un-ending pause in my new life. Even now, I can feel the dull pain of the knife that is this global shut down cutting into the pit of my stomach. It’s so hard to see all theContinue reading “My Journey Back to America”

Just about a day or two after my last post, things took a turn for the worst here. My visa is up and I cannot cross any nearby borders. The Myanmar and Laos borders have closed down. That being said, I’ve booked the soonest plane back to America. I’m heartbroken and a little nervous. HopefullyContinue reading “I Guess I Spoke Too Soon”

I just looked at my previous post and realized it’s been three weeks since I’ve written on here! When I think back on why it’s taken me so long, I realize that I’ve been really busy….and maybe a little lazy. I’m an English tutor for the time being, until my actual job at a schoolContinue reading “Coronavirus, Cave Exploring, and Communicating with Locals”

I’m absolutely in love with this town. Everything about this place makes my heart sing. Of course, there are the not so great parts like the burning season (when the farmers burn their land to clear it for new crops and the smoke settles in our little town) or not being able to communicate clearlyContinue reading “Chiang Mai”

As quickly as the care-free fun in Chiang Mai and Krabi started, it ended! I knew this would be the case, because ya girl is NOT made of money. Once I got home from Krabi, I started looking for jobs. I quickly learned that finding a job here is pretty easy. I applied for aContinue reading “Settling Into My New Life”

As we all know, social media generally only shows the good parts of peoples’ lives. You see those beautiful beaches and tanned smiles. What you don’t see on social media is annoying jellyfish stings or people struggling to figure out how to use a thai washing machine at a laundromat. You don’t see those injuriesContinue reading “Things I’ve Learned So Far”

I couldn’t help but chuckle to myself as I woke up in my Chiang Mai condo this morning and said, “well, back to normal”. After finding a long-term condo in Chiang Mai, I dropped my luggage off and hopped down south to the Krabi Province to meet up with an old college roommate, Maddie. She’sContinue reading “It’s been a while!”

After 21 hours of travel, I’m finally safe and sound in Chiang Mai. It’s funny how flying through the air in a giant metal tube can mess with your sense of time. I left Houston on January 18 at 11:40 p.m. and landed on the other side of the world on January 20 at 10:50Continue reading “I’m Finally in Thailand”