ABOUT ME

I don't like to sit still. If I stay in one place for too long, I get antsy and feel like I'm missing the rest of the world.

So I travel. I visit new places. I move to new countries and explore new cultures.

Some days it's exciting. Some days are like all the others. But it's my life and I love it.

Interests

Traveling, reading, and running when I find the time.

• running
• reading
• traveling

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

January 2012.
I was sitting on the Great Wall of China and it hit me. I had done it. Five months before I had decided to quit my job and move abroad to teach English. I knew I wanted to end up in China although I really had no idea where I was going to teach or when I was going to start teaching. In November 2011, I boarded a plane bound for Thailand where I would take a month long TEFL course. After that, I would country hop for a few months and then eventually come to China where I would job search and ideally find a job. Well I got to China at the beginning of January and within two weeks, I had secured a job to start teaching at the beginning of February.
At the end of January though, I was visiting Beijing before I started teaching and it was then that I went to visit what is for most people the symbol of China. If anyone had asked me ten years ago or even five years ago that I would be moving to China to teach English, I would have told them they are crazy. Yet, there I was.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Belgium, Cambodia, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, England, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Laos, Macao, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Panama, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, China, Greece, Taiwan, Thailand, United States