Exploring Jaipur
I have started my Hindi lessons with my teacher, Subhadra. Each weekday morning, I take a tuk-tuk (autorickshaw) to the Idex offices and
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Learning Hindi in Jaipur, India
While researching about working at the State Department, I found out that there are four languages that they consider critical. With Hindi being
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Hat Sairee in Ko Tao and Saying Goodbye to Friends and Thailand
On another rainy day, we loaded up our beach stuff and headed over to the swimming cove near our hotel again. Every time
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Hanging Out in Ko Tao with Jordan and Tia
Ko Tao is a relatively larger island so we rented motorbikes to cruise around a bit. The surrounding area of our guesthouse was
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Ko Tao with our Canadian Friends Tia and Jordan
Our good friends, Tia and Jordan, who we know as fellow English teachers in Korea, were traveling around southeast Asia at the same
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The Beach on Ko Phi Phi
So a quick recap of our Thailand trip is in order. From Bangkok, we flew down to Krabi and stayed three nights in
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Thai Island Life in Ko Lanta
After the jungles and mountains in northern Thailand, the big city sojourn in Bangkok and then the beach town of Ao Nang, we
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Ao Nang and Railey Beach
After three days in hectic Bangkok taking in the cultural sights of the big city, we took a quick one-hour AirAsia flight down
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Sleeper Train to Bangkok
We left the capital of Laos, Vientiane, and crossed the border into Thailand. Unfortunately, when you enter Thailand by road, you are only
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Tubing the Vang Vieng in Laos
Vang Vieng was a sleepy village in Laos not too long ago when some enterprising locals and tourists decided to turn their incredibly
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