yoga teacher. world traveler. writer. podcast host.
It’s weird to think about feeling culture shock in your own country, because it’s a culture that you know so, so well. Where you grow up and who you grow up around indicates so much of your behavior as an adult and how you interact with people.
So how is it possible to experience culture shock in your own country?
[Read more…] about Day 6: Feeling Culture Shock in Your Own Country
A couple of months ago, I started two online communities via Facebook private groups. One for The World Wanderers and one for M.B.Om. Over the last few months, I have watched the groups grow steadily, and although they are both still small, I have learned a lot from these experiences.
Today I wrote a post on M.B.Om about my top 7 tips to creating an effective online community. Read it here!
After a rocky month in Taiwan, I was excited to arrive in Seoul for our final week in Asia.
We arrived late at night and we set out to check out the city early the next morning. First stop – getting a SIM card. This proved to be much more difficult than we originally imagined. The language barrier was steep in Seoul and we weren’t able to translate our questions about getting a SIM card because we didn’t have data. After a couple of hours of hunting for a SIM card, we finally found a place that sold them in the metro.
Because Taiwan had less than impressed us right off the get go, I was uncertain about what I would think about Seoul, but I almost immediately liked it. It’s a massive city with a number of different interesting areas to check out.
When I left for Asia a little over a year ago, I set a goal to blog once a month, providing a travel update about life as a “digital nomad”. I was successful for 7/8 months. So, before I jump into other life musings, I feel it’s my duty to share about my time in Taiwan way back in May of this year.
Ryan and I flew to Taipei, Taiwan from Tokyo, Japan. We left Japan on a complete and total high. I had expected to like Japan, but not to fall so completely in love with it. Do you know that feeling when you arrive in a new city or country and you feel totally at home right away? That’s how I felt in Japan. It just felt right being there. There are few places in the world that have given me that feeling, so 3 weeks certainly didn’t feel like long enough to spend there.
After 2 glorious months in Bali, I wasn’t really sure that it could get much better. But, I was mistaken!
Ryan and I met our good friends Steve and Julia when we lived down in Atlanta back in 2015. We’ve remained good friends since then, and they planned a visit up in Canada this past summer. While we were roaming the Rocky Mountains, we started planning our trip to Japan together!
Our trip to Japan had been in the works for a number of months, and we had 2 weeks to explore Tokyo, Mount Fuji + Kyoto with Steve + Julia before heading onto Hiroshima ourselves.
When I left you last, it was the end of January, we had just arrived in Bali and we were settling into life in Ubud.
We slipped into a routine quickly with most of our days spent at Hubud, the coworking space where we purchased memberships. After 4 months of having our community entirely online, it was awesome to connect with people who are doing the same thing as us in person. Working at a space like Hubud was the boost of confidence we had both been needing, as being a digital nomad and trying to create businesses online can be a lonely feat sometimes. I have moments where I find myself wondering if my wires are crossed and I missed something about what I should want out of life. Being at a place like Hubud reminded me that I need to continue to forge the path in life that makes me the most happy.
