First thing is first.... I should have started this thing ages ago. I have already been in Taiwan for 8 months and thought I should get a start on it but just ended up keeping a personal journal, not really thinking anyone wanted to read my thoughts. But I also remember that before I came here I did a lot of research on the internet trying to find people who had already done the same so I could get a good feel for what I was getting myself into. Would I be throwing myself into a land of unreasonable Asian bosses, unsurpassabe cultural differences and boredom?
Or would it be the continued adventure I hoped for? Ever since my first travel experience overseas in Phuket Thailand at age 18 I have been in love with travelling. I went for nothing more than a mates holiday and a bit of cheap hedonism on a well known resort island. Hardly the stuff of Tintin adventures. Despite the place being a place for young white people to come get drunk, lay on the beach and buy cheap knock off clothes and for old middle aged men to come looking for prostitution I was still in love with the exoticness of it. Road rules seemed non existant, tasty food was served on street corners for cheap, prostitutes pushed themselves on you and open drains constantly smelt of excrement and rotting garbage. It was great, it had edge it had the excitement that suburban Australia always lacked.
Anyway another four Asian countries later and here I am. Living in Taiwan pursuing the travel experience without having to save up and squirrel my money away all year to spend a couple of weeks and months in another country enjoying myself before returning to the drudgery.
Or would it be the continued adventure I hoped for? Ever since my first travel experience overseas in Phuket Thailand at age 18 I have been in love with travelling. I went for nothing more than a mates holiday and a bit of cheap hedonism on a well known resort island. Hardly the stuff of Tintin adventures. Despite the place being a place for young white people to come get drunk, lay on the beach and buy cheap knock off clothes and for old middle aged men to come looking for prostitution I was still in love with the exoticness of it. Road rules seemed non existant, tasty food was served on street corners for cheap, prostitutes pushed themselves on you and open drains constantly smelt of excrement and rotting garbage. It was great, it had edge it had the excitement that suburban Australia always lacked.
Anyway another four Asian countries later and here I am. Living in Taiwan pursuing the travel experience without having to save up and squirrel my money away all year to spend a couple of weeks and months in another country enjoying myself before returning to the drudgery.
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