Living and Working in Myanmar

The morning sunrise greeting me as I reached the school The process of settling in began almost immediately as I arrived to the school compound around 6ish in the morning. The first thing that caught my eye was the heavy sliding metal gates that seemed really heavy set. Moving in I learnt my accomodations were at the top floor and I was excited. Having worked at an island, I am used to living on campus and well aware of the benefits. My first picture taken at the top floor was the rising sun and the beautiful mountain range that rose in the distance.                    I had alot of things to get and the school arranged me a driver to bring me around. For a few hours and 3 destinations I was quoted around 12000 khat ( around 8 usd) and I found this very reasonable. Moving around in the tuk tuk was fun and the dust hardly seemed to get in though I realised soon enough that certain areas were catered for tourists while there were...

Just off the plane and heading to school Been awhile since I had a reason to travel and the opportunity to work in Myanmar came like a bolt out of the blue. I'd always been a traveller and enjoyed getting lost just for the sheer fun and thrill of it but this is my first experience working abroad therefore it felt really good to touch down in Yangon. My first few glimpses of Yangon showed a fairly developed part of the country as we drove out to the Yangon branch of the school where I was to work. As my bus journey down was only in the evening, I had a number of hours to wait and I was to wait at the school.  As we drove down to the school, ( about 45 minutes or so) it gave me time to take in the surroundings, the kind of architecture the buildings showed as well as the overall movement on the street. Children walked by as we stopped at the traffic junctions, trying to sell small garlands of jasmine flowers knitted together. Amidst the large hotels and buildings, this wa...