Travel To Grow

I realize that I haven’t shown enough of the surrounding areas of where I live in China. So I’ve decided to upload a photo gallery. China has very contracting areas in close proximity. There are new parts with high rise buildings, huge government offices, statues and artwork all within a few minutes walk of old [...]

So I finally saw my real school and my real apartment in Shunde, and it’s totally awesome! There is so much more stuff around Shunde, and after being at Nanhai which is very secluded it is a very welcome change. I’m super excited about it, heres some pictures of the Plaza my appartment and school [...]

It’s time to shop! I badly needed a laptop to get back in touch with the world~The lead teacher dude Allen said he would take me to the best place for a laptop he wanted to buy a new psp also. We hopped on a couple buses and after about 20 minutes we made it [...]

I met up with my friend Maggie aka Margaret in the morning (she was nice enough to meet me at my hotel) We went out for sweet breakfast of rice and beef. In this restaurant the cutlery is stored in the table… So after you sit down they slide out a drawer and grab your [...]

Ahhh and then there I was in Hong Kong. It’s a really weird thing when you step off a plane, at least with me, I never feel like I really went anywhere. Its like you’re in Canada, you step into a box, watch a movie of clouds going by then you step out. The fact [...]

Next we arrived at the amazing and famous Koh Phi Phi island! Back on Dec 24th 2004 this island was devastated by a massive Tsunami that killed nearly 1000 people and destroyed countless lives. The island was abandoned and it was thought that the popular backpacking destination may never return to its former state. Thankfully [...]

Today we head to our next sleeping destination, the stunning floating bungalows! We headed out on longboats for the adventure. Riding down this amazing freshwater lake was one of my favorite things in the world. I’m on a lake quite often in Ontario, but this lake in Thailand blew it out of the water. (sorry [...]

Coming off the train we saw something pretty sweet, there was this crazy looking bus all panted with cool designs. We were quite thrilled to find out it was our party bus! The bus was designed specifically for us and was packed with lots of fans to keep us cool, a pretty sweet sound system, [...]

After the temple the trip leaders decided to give us another unique Thai experience, a Thai massage! I’m a big fan of massages but this first massage in Thailand was… special. I had many other super awesome massages over the next 40 days but the first one I had turned out to be the worst [...]