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Posts Tagged ‘new beginnings’

Sat
29
Aug '09

Touchdown in Hong Kong!

So there it was 4:45am on August 25th and my alarm went off, telling me it was time to wake up… to go to China… for a year! A big “WTF am I doing?” went through my head and I thought about how crazy this whole tripped seemed for a minute but then I managed [...]

Sat
29
Aug '09

Welcome to the China blog!

Welcome to my China blog! Since my adventures in Thailand I’ve decided to come to China to teach english for about a year. I’m set up with a job teaching job in a school called Lingdong! This blog will chronicle my daily adventures teaching english in Shunde, Guangdong, China and will show interesting/unique things about [...]

Wed
21
Jan '09

Day 1 – The Adventure Begins

The Adventure Begins After a staggering 24 hours of flying and stopovers I had finally made it from my home in Toronto to the beginning of my adventure in Bangkok. Inside the airport I met up with 2 new friends on the trip and together we found our trip leaders, Bertus and Jemma. We had [...]

Tue
20
Jan '09

Day 0 – The 40 day adventure to Thailand

The feeling before a big change in your life is a really interesting one. On the morning of January 20th when I woke up to head to the airport to begin my 40 day Thailand adventure, my first ever real travel experience, I was filled with a sense of total excitement and a weird mix [...]