All The Places Creating Takes Me
I wrote and posted a rant in the heat of frustration that I've since taken down. I've had some time to regroup and cool off from the situation, and I'm in a very good place now. I'm seeing that all that's happened has occurred for my highest good. I'm looking at my situation as part …
There’s a clothing shop on my street that I’ve gotten a few things from. Everything there is secondhand, and a lot of it has been modified, which I’m getting really into (learning some very basic upcycling techniques until I graduate to using a sewing machine.) Anyway, the owner is a very sweet Thai woman who …
In this installment of The Chronicles of Badass Female Solo Travelers, we will hear from my lovely friend and enormous inspiration Tilly, in her own words. Name: Matilda Edwards Age: 20Nationality: Australian Tell me a little about yourself…Imagine you’re in a Beer Garden enjoying a catch up with friends, and you hear this repetitive loud …
A huge highlight of my time here has been the opportunity to meet some of the most badass, independent, solo female travelers. Women who took an enormous leap to come live in a foreign culture by themselves. I was marveling to my friend Tilly about some of the qualities I admire about these people (herself …
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The main discovery I’ve made over the past few weeks, is that every day things get easier in some way. It might just be small, incremental shifts, but those are guaranteed to add up. My first week in Sukhothai was by far the hardest of my trip. It is jarring to go from a month-long …
I’ve noticed that over the course of a couple months, my priorities and interests have undergone a big shift. I thought before I was socially conscious, and I was, but only in my limited scope of living in a first world country. Living here, I see the effects of all of the wasteful practices that …
Just typing this out makes me feel like I've lost my hardened New England edge, but it's been cold here since this weekend. It got down to 11 degrees Celsius (which I just had to Google in Fahrenheit, and it's only a laughable 51.) I know, I know, my friends back home are bundled up …
I came to teach in Thailand for a number of reasons, but the underlying motivation was: I felt like I didn’t fit in where I was before. This is a feeling I’ve carried with me throughout my life, the majority of which I’ve spent in New Hampshire, the tiny north-east bit of America. The notion …
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If you're reading this, it means I made it out alive and I'm safely back in Sukhothai with my laptop and hopefully a Thai iced tea (I deserve it.) My first ever "visa trip", and first trip to Lao, changed me as a person. Hardened me you might say--like a convict. The amount of stress …
Before coming to Thailand, I had a definite image in my head about what my life would be like. I can, in some part, attribute this to the role social media plays. Travelers visit beautiful places and use the images they collect to make vision boards of the perfect life. Hell, even I do that. …
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