My Adventure Continues

I came to Thailand a year and a half ago for a new beginning.  My wife is Thai, I was out of work in the US, the economy was in terrible shape, I had lost my home and all I had was a rented house full of my furniture.  When I came here, I had many plans, many different ideas of how I was going to regain my western lifestyle. None of them worked.  Strangely, at least for me, the longer I am here, the less I miss the life I had before.

This is my story of leaving everything that I was familiar with and coming to a foreign country to make a life for myself and my wife.  Before I came here, I wrote a weekly blog of my joys and struggles, and this will be a continuation of that story, though the theme has changed.  At first, I resisted change and yet change was forced on me every day.  I think I am changing.

A view from land we are buying

My blog is not a travel journal, though I do talk about my travels when I take them.  I avoid complaining about Thailand as it is pointless to complain about a place I chose to be that is so entirely different from where I came from.  I am also not a night clubber, so don't expect tales of escapades in various wild hangouts.  I am still basically the same person I was a few years ago, though my eyes have been opened to possibilities I had not considered seriously for a very long time.

In the US, I was an auditor.  I spent most of my days reviewing work done by other people and reporting my results to their managers.  The managers appreciated me when I gave them good news and ignored me when I gave them bad news.  The work paid well, though I found I was able to do it in my sleep after so many years.

The first major change that was thrust upon me was losing my job.  This particular management only wanted happy news and that isn't what auditors are very good at.  They gave me a nice check and sent me on my way.

What I liked most about the work was that it was mostly unstructured.  I had a method that I applied to each review, but what I reviewed was up to me.  I apply that flexibility to my new work as an English teacher to 800 Thai high school students.  Surprisingly to me is that I both like teaching and find I am getting better at it.  Thus my story is about teaching and living in Thailand.  Feel free to drop me comments and suggestions.  As the title of this says, my adventure continues.