21 Hours in Tokyo
Well, it was a bit of a wild ride at the end, with a roadside bomb going off in my village the morning I started my trek back to Manila, […]
Category Archives: Life Abroad
Stories from my work and life outside Canada.
Siargao
When I found out I was moving to the Philippines, it was a fairly last-minute scramble. I also just re-read that post to myself and thought, look how cute and optimistic you […]
Cebu
It’s always easier for me to write about going on vacation, particularly now that I’m living in Not-That-Goa. The Philippines is a pretty Catholic country, to put it mildly, so […]
Not-That-Goa
So every time I thought about writing about life thus far in the Philippines, I got a very blasé feeling, and just thought… maybe later. And then it got to […]
Limbo
At this point, I’m essentially playing the live action version of ‘Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?’ As a child, I had dreams of this. Just a young gumshoe, […]
Strugglez II: The Remix
Apparently I’m just a sucker for punishment. As if the first set of struggles weren’t enough to tell me I should take a vacation, round two came out hard and forced me to. […]
Struggles
Happy New Year! Hope everyone had a great holiday season. Mine was… eventful. Or, if we’re being perfectly honest – the past month of my life has mostly been […]
Settling In
It’s hard to believe I’m finally (mostly) settled into Musanze. After living out of hotels and friends’ houses for a solid month, I’m so happy to finally have a new […]
Here We Go Again
Well, 135 job applications and three continents later, and I finally have another (temporary) life plan, on my fourth continent of 2016. I’m very excited to be returning to Africa, which stole my […]
Next
What’s next? I literally cannot tell you how many times I have heard that question in the past four months or so. Along with, “so where in Canada are you […]
I am a part of all that I have met///Rose v Date 