Thailand

I have a new adventure that I am really excited about!! As many of you know I decided to do some volunteer work in Trang, Thailand. It my way of combining my love of traveling and helping to make the world a better place for those less fortunate than me.

Well, I have added yet another one of my "loves" to the Thailand adventure. I found a marathon in Bangkok that is being held at the end of November, so I moved my volunteer dates up a month. I will now be in Trang from Nov 3 until November 22. I will then fly to Bangkok and do some sightseeing until November 25th, when I will run the Standard Chartered Bangkok International Marathon. It actually works out better financially because the cost of a plane ticket to Thailand in November is half the price that it would be in December. I love saving money!!

I have arranged the volunteering in Trang through an organization called Cross Cultural Solutions. They take care of the logistics of the volunteer experience. I did some research of a few different oraganizations, and they seemed to be the best fit for what I want to get out of this experience. If anyone is curious as to what Cross Cultural Solutions is all about Click Here.

I have officially started working my 2nd job again in order to fund this trip, since it is kind of expensive. The program fee will cover my transportation, housing, food, and various other aspects of the program. I am hoping to at least save up enough money to cover the cost of my plane ticket in the next couple of months. I think the experience, not only for me but for the people I will be working with, will be worth the overall monetary costs. I haven't been assigned an actual job yet, but I am hoping to be working with children or woman teaching them English and helping to inspire them to do great things.

If anyone would like to help out by sponsoring me you can visit my sponsor page Here.

I feel really fortunate that I am finally in a position where I can take the time off work to do this. As a child I always thought it would be awesome to be rich so that I could go to 3rd world countries and help to educate the people and hopefully aid in making thier quality of life better. I used to watch Princess Diana on TV and think about how cool it must be to do all that humanitarian work, meet all those interesting people, and not have to worry about the monetary costs of it. while I am by no means rich at the moment, I do feel that I am financially stable enough to be able to afford to have this once in a lfetime experience.

I did do some volunteer work at the Gumi Orphanage when I lived in South Korea for a year. It was only once a month, but it was an incredible experience that I will never forget. I am hoping to get as much, if not more, from this experience!!