Getting Ready for the Job

I have decided to continue the blog that I never finished, as I continue my adventures in Thailand with a field guide position at the International Sustainable Development Studies Institute, located in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Currently, I am spending my last few weeks in the United States, traveling around the state of Washington and Idaho, the surroundings of my hometown in Spokane, WA. As I get ready to leave, I find myself both ecstatic and nervous--ecstatic to see my host family who I have only had phone contact with for the past year; ecstatic to have a "motorcycle" (really a scooter: The Honda Dream) to ride around on in Thailand; ecstatic to be an instructor at the institution that I had so many great experiences at. Yet I am also nervous to step into the real world, the working life, in a country where I already have a bit of a struggle getting around. Whatever happens, it will be an adventure, and I am definitely stoked to make my way from Eastern Washington to another world.