Ahh, new jobs… aren’t they the best?!

New jobs are kind of like a new pair of shoes or a new relationship. We approach them full of hope and optimism. We just know that This One will work out. This One will be the perfect fit. This One won’t make us sit in a [...]

I quit.

After four weeks of living and working on a traditional Malay sailing junk in Kuala Terengganu on the eastern coast of Malaysia, I’ve decided that the boat-building life is not for me. This is not to say that I didn’t like it. I met some really good people there, I learned a [...]

I have a new job!

I’m sure this will overjoy all my regular readers out there who have grown tired of my tales from the Malaysian rice farm where I just finished up a two-month volunteer gig — although I really don’t know how you could get tired of hearing about all my exploits [...]

When I first thought up the idea of spending one to three months in each of the countries that I’ll be visiting this year, my reasoning was that by spending a significant amount of time in each place, I would have a better chance of learning more about the people and culture of the [...]

Before arriving on the organic rice farm six weeks ago, I had no idea what jobs my volunteer assignment would entail. Of course it being a rice farm, I had a vague notion that I would be involved in some form of, well, rice farming… but what rice farming was and how one actually [...]