The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly. - Buddha ...

Me, Dave, and my friends from Chiang Mai and Philippines

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace. - Buddha

Reflections

Since arriving in Thailand in February this year, I feel I have grown very much. I am feeling very comfortable here in Chiang Mai and feel I could stay for many years. I have not experienced a feeling of homesickness, nor do I miss my lifestyle in Boston. Not yet have a felt, oh I miss it.
What I do miss is my friends and family, but we are used to being apart also and it feels great to be following my dream to live in Asia and create a life here. There are many jobs here for teaching and there will never be a shortage. It is necessary to live a simple life here though, and I have no problem for doing that. I feel like everything that I have gone through before in my life has prepared me to live in Asia for a extended amount of time.

I haven't been feeling very inspired for photography lately, but recently in the past few days I have been feeling the creative urges starting to happen, so I will be having more stories and photographs of where I am living in the next few months.
Many things are changing for me here, I am moving into a new apartment beginning August 1st. It is a new apartment building and I am renting about the same size studio apartment as I have now, except everything is brand new, it is on the top floor; 8th floor, and it has an amazing view of the West sunset; the entire mountain range. So when I am on my balcony I can sit and drink tea, do my homework writing papers and doing research, and contemplate how to continue educating myself as much as possible.
There are numerous opportunities to educate myself here in Chiang Mai. They have language centers all over, cooking schools, traditional thai massage schools, and easy access to Chiang Mai University which has many opportunities to take a ny class i choose.
After living abroad for sometime now, I have realized fully just how important education is. So I am dedicating all of my time to Education and helping to educate others as well. This is my purpose here and I will succeed. I hope you all support me in my decisions.

More to come...

Bachelors Degree

I haven't been posting because I have realized that I got bored with it, I do not have many readers i guess. Anyways, I will update periodically. At the moment, I am finishing my Bachelors Degree and have considered my self a full time student until November 2011. I have changed my degree to Bachelors of Fine Arts in Web Design.
My graduation date has been extended because I did change my University from University of Phoenix to American Intercontinental University. It is an international university and they are really great as they have live online lectures with the professor, and it feels like you are in a classroom. I am using student loans and because i will not be working the the US this year I should receive financial aid beginning next year. If any of you readers would like to donate to my education fund, it would be greatly appreciated, a little goes a long way here.
My PayPal email address is lukejoshua8@gmail.com
I am working part time at a language school preparing students for the international english tests to be able to study or work abroad. I do not make too much money for now, but it is just enough.
I will try to take more photos soon when I get more time, and I will have more photos being posted soon.