Can we smoke in here?

I decided to stick around Asia for a little while instead of fucking straight off to Europe.

I’m trying to act really nonchalant and worldly when i talk about job offers and interviews. I’m trying to drop Hanoi and Bangkok into conversation like it was Toronto or Edmonton. I’m trying to sound like jumping around the world is no big deal to me, and having job offers in 3 different countries is par for the course.

The truth is, when I say that I have a job interview for a position in Thailand, I’m squealing like a little school girl inside. I can’t quite believe that it’s possible, or that it will happen, or that it is in any way a wise or responsible thing to do, to jump on a plane (again) to go to a job I know nothing about (again) in a country with a foreign language and a city I will probably lose myself in (again). I can’t quite believe that I’m qualified or grown up or cool enough to be a ‘globe-trotter’, or to casually accept jobs on a different continent. I’m not entirely sure that, in 10 years, when I have a resume of countries but no real career prospects, I won’t regret settling down sooner.

I have 2 interviews for jobs in Bangkok this week, a job offer in Thailand, and there’s a school in Hanoi that is considering me for a six month contract. I’m on waiting lists for schools in Taiwan and Kuala Lumpur.

No big deal.