So this is work...

For those of you who don't already know that I spent a rather extended "holiday" in Thailand, it may come as a shock to hear that I in fact did do some "honest" work and got a few more strings to my bow.

It started off with some sales work in a rock climbing shop, which involved having to experience the whole kit and kaboodle in order to make me a bona-fide rep... Alas I had already admitted my fear of heights to bosses Suchard and Theep, but they were adament that I must feel the power of the mighty rock, in order to become at one with the world...

Ah yes, and that I did, as my squeals of "ok I'm up here, can I come down now", were blasted over the island by my foghorn, whilst I was at... hmm let me see, all of 2 metres... I was told that I at least had to make it to the first set of anchors and kiss them - which were around about 14 metres away... That's like 3 km for those of you who have no concept of metres... True.

When I finally kissed that blessed ring - and a splendid example of a ring if ever I saw one - I was amazed, I had made it! Only trouble was of course, I now had to get down! Fortunately and thanks to gravity, going down has always been much easier!!! No pun intended...

After the rock climbing experience, I realised that although I was doing OK sales, the time of year (low season) wasn't really conducive to great earnings, and thus I decided to look for different work, which landed me about 30kms south of Bangkok, in a school in the province of Samut Prakarn.

Now most of you who know me from back home, will be thinking now that I was the girl who at one time vowed NEVER to become a teacher... Yeah well, things change - and money gets tight!
A lot of the ferang (western) teachers had taken on jobs because they were low on cash. Sadly some of them were too interested in the money and ended up doing a real crappy jobs with the kids, which in turn made their lives more difficult. Fortunately, I loved it!

After a few months teaching 11-17 year olds, I returned south to the Islands of the Andaman Sea, where I took up my divemaster training and work! If ever there was a job in the world that you jumped out of bed for (most days anyway!), this was it!

Hopefully the photos throughout this site will show why!