taiwan & thailand in 5 x 5s

in a few days my month of after-service wandering/sweating/eating/photographing my way through southeast asia will come to an end and I’ll set out on one last flight — this time headed for home to put the “R” in my RPCV status (returned peace corps volunteer).

I will certainly miss southeast asia — what am i going to do without all this amazing cheap ‘n delicious street food or coconut flavored everything??! but i dare say it’s high time I go home, stop living out of my backpack, have some chicago deep dish, and finally be with family and friends.

I’ll be seeing you on Monday, America.

georgetown penang in 5 x 5s

georgetown — just when i didn’t think things could be any hotter. georgetown isn’t only hot it’s hott…but in an old toothless man driving a rickshaw sort of a hott…if that exists  i’m going to say it does. though, this could be the heat making my logic a little bit fuzzy. anyways, tomorrow it’s back to singapore for a few days (time to edit my photos and write some more!) before i head to taiwan and thailand.

kuala lampur in 5 x 5s

any day that involves monkey-watching and ends with your cuticles colored curry from the best indian food you’ve had is a good day indeed. tomorrow it’s off to georgetown in penang!

a little travel update from KLP

some of you might be (or might not be) wondering where I am at the moment. I know your life just isn’t the same without my lowercase love!

just to catch you up, i made it safely to singapore, hung out there with my brother for a bit (i have some photos on flickr already) and then hopped over to malaysia for my first real solo trip — greetings from kuala lampur!

I was thinking of doing a “photoblog travelogue” about singapore but I just have way too many photos right now. not to mention, it deserves some well thought out text to go with it…buuuut so far, my travel notes are a bit chaotic and neanderthal-like. I’ll get to sorting my words out soon, I promise.

in the meantime, just so you don’t think I’m dead, here’s a glimpse of some poor quality iphone photos i’ve taken the past two days. there will be more to come!

villagestagrams of the week that was

because living in a village has never looked so hip (and also because my guilty pleasure is instagraming village scenery)

sometimes my 5th graders are so philosophical — “I like my teacher Miss Kristen because I don’t like my teacher Miss Kristen”