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Published: October 23rd 2008
Decisions, decisions
Trying to figure out what to DO with our lives!Ok...So first of all I would like to say YES, i know that its been a YEAR since we first arrived to ChiangMai. And I sincerely apologize for not getting this blog up here sooner.
You know how life gets. It gets crazy sometimes.
SO
The story goes....
We left Indonesia for Kuala Lumpur, once again.
This time with NO idea where to go to next.
We finally came to the conclusion that we needed time to focus on our bodies and get in shape, and what better place to do that then on a hot, sunny beach in thailand.
Well, somehow we found a Canadian pilates instructor (more precisely from Winnipeg!) and ended up in a hot, sunny city in northern Thailand, Chiangmai.
Which was really quite fun since Thailand was NEVER meant to be in the travel plans at all.
Thus, we arrived in Chiangmai and our eyes were peeled wide open.
YES we had just spend the past four months in another southeast asian country but how could it be so different?
First of all the language, the faces, the buildings the FOOD.
Everything.
Chiangmai is a moving city, lots of action all the time.
Traffic, noise
Old meets new
In downtown Kuala Lumpur and HEAT.
But ALSO...
always within a stones throw of some amazing ancient buddhist temple to duck into, festivals galore and a lifetimes worth of street food to explore.
We completely fell in love with it at first sight. Thats how we managed to pass the next six months there without noticing the time go by at all.
Birthdays, anniversaries, and holidays all just passed by and we kept living our simple and utterly happy lives there.
We made community of friends, found an apartment, studied the fine art of teaching English as a foreign language.
And then....got jobs.
Yes we started working. Thats how comfortable we were (oh ya, and low on $).
While we were there we were lucky enough to have Guillaumes parents and my sister come and visit us, on separate occasions, which i will write about later, so we did some exploring of other regions of Thailand and even Laos, and therefore didnt spend ALL the six months in ChiangMai alone.
Thailand is an amazing country. The smiles, the religion, the food. Incredible.
How fortunate we were to fall upon a place like that.
There was so much to learn about a culture that we
Seems like so long ago...
We poured and saluted to our first SINGHA beer ever. really just threw ourselves into unexpectedly.
More to come about the Loy Krathong Festival and other cool stuff.
P.S. Since we are leaving for India in TWO days, unfortunately I will not have the time to update the blogs from the rest of Thailand and Laos.
But I promise to do it when we get back from India.
And YES you can expect us to be posting exciting blogs during our travels in India for the next six months.
Bye everyone!
Enjoy! We know WE will.
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