I know most of you are probably curious as to what I’ve been doing for work and why I’m not sleeping in a gutter. Before arriving in Vietnam, I did a lot of research into ESL teaching and basically every forum said if you’re Asian you will not get hired to teach English even though you’re a native English speaker. But then I got here and realized that it is possible!…. if you have some sort of qualification which I don’t. Luckily, I’ve still been working with a travel agency Turkey editing and rewriting their website so there’s some income coming in. The second thing I started to do is sell Vietnamese knick knacks and what not online. This is not steady by any means but between my two “jobs” I’m making it work.

However, I did apply for one job since I’ve been here. I applied at a bar to be a bartender. The girl laughed and said they couldn’t pay me enough, but when I told her I was serious she went to get the manager to come over to talk to me. He never spoke to me at all, he just kinda walked by and took a look at me and the girl came back and told me the position had been filled. LIAR. Damn these good looks of mine must have been too intimidating….

So while Kris, Laurene and Serene bust their asses working, I spend my days drinking mango shakes and keepin it real.