Update - for Uncle Moe ;)

I haven't posted much on the blog in the past few months because for one, I don't have nearly as much downtime to ponder life as I did in Korea. Along with school, I've been pretty busy as of late with visitors and holidays. (life is rough) Secondly, practically my entire family has Facebook now, including my Grandma, so I haven't felt the need to update this as much.

However there are a few souls left in the world that don't have Facebook (and I commend them for not getting sucked in to what can become a life-consuming addiction) and for them I felt compelled to update. Especially my Uncle Moe in Michigan; the location-reader at the lower right hand of this page has shown a regular visitor from Sault Saint Marie, which is most likely him. This one's for you Uncle Moe ;)

The Facebook world will know that after weighing the pros and cons for months, I decided to take a position at Colegio Americano de Torreon, an American International school in Torreon, Mexico. When I went home for Christmas, I was gutted hearing about all the weddings and such I was missing this spring and summer, and I decided I wanted to be closer to home. Torreon is about a 5 hour flight from Minneapolis, verses a 25 hour flight from Bangkok, so that was what ulitimately tipped the scales.

I felt pretty good about my decsion for about a week, but after that, have been questioning it ever since. Since I decided to leave, Thailand continues to grow on me.

Just now I was sitting next to the river here in Pai, a beautiful little mountain town in Northern Thailand, enjoying the sunshine and the scenery and a Diet Coke, thinking, why am I leaving this?

I'm still not sure I made the right decision, but it's a little late now. I've already told family, friends, and my present and future employers that I am moving to Mexico in August, but I am very sad about what I'm leaving behind. As of now I have a little over 4 months left in Thailand, and I'm going to try and make the best of them.

Cocktails by the pool at our resort in Pai. Life is good :)