Uf Da - Year+ in Review

Where do I even start?

It's been a long time since I've addressed you, dear reader, of that I'm acutely aware.

Ultimately, I'm so happy I took a year away from documenting my life. I underwent some big internal and external changes this year, and I feel like I'm coming out of the forge much better for it. It would have been weird to go completely dark, so here I am again. And I come armed with so, so many thoughts... :)

In the time since we last spoke (and keep in mind there are old blog posts yet to be re-published), I:

• Did the Ha Giang loop with my cuzbro Chris!
• Got a new job teaching Kindergarten!
• Hated my job!
• Traversed the mid-south by motorbike!
• Visited Chicago, and went to a wedding!
• Went to Laos!
• Saw Chris and Anya and their beautiful baby!
• Missed a whole lot more weddings! Was kind of a dick about it!
• Got hired (possible dream job?!)!
• Got fired (Not the dream job!)!
• Went to Bali! Got a new passport! Cried in front of the military on my way out of the country!
• Started a private business!
• All adult students!
• Got hired again, big company!
• Somewhere in here I learned to floss my teeth regularly!
• Learned how to network! Uf da, god, I hate this so much.
• Turns out the job is perfect for me!
• Oh, but the national bank is so bad...!
• New methods of teaching! Technology Points +100!
• Glenda and Cathy visited, we traveled, and I re-discovered what I love about this country...
• ...and I'm fired up about Vietnam, once again!!

All sorts of great things from the last year, and beyond... coming soon!

Thanks for stopping by! Sorry to be a bit of a tease... if you're looking for some of my old posts, check out the calendar history. Over 200 posts await your nostolgia-starved brain-holes.

Taken collectively, that's the epic backdrop for the Story about to be told here... on abenabroad.

Dun dun dunnnnnn...!

Stay Tuned! So glad you're here! :)

Ben