Category: Moving Abroad
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4 Years Later in Thailand Part 3 –“Assimilation”
Monday January 10, 2011 was Joe’s first day of training at work. He took the scooter we had rented and I took a cab to search for a teaching job. I tried to straighten my hair that morning, but the cheap converter we bought started to smoke and fried my Chi. Western comforts were slowly…
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4 Years Later in Thailand Part 2 –“The First Month”
One of the houses we looked at was nothing more than an empty shell with only one dirty mattress on the floor. I was horrified and began to fear we would be forced to live in the jungle with cobras and no air conditioning. The locals tend to hang around outside (probably because it’s too…
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4 Years Later in Thailand – Part 1
It was November 2010 and the condo Joe and I were renting in downtown Orlando was being foreclosed on. We were being kicked out of our home and I was preparing to graduate from the University of Central Florida after 5 years of carefully laid plans. I moved from Texas to Florida and took time…
Angela Killian 