Comments for Lonely Girl Travels http://lonelygirltravels.com an Oakland girl in the world Wed, 16 May 2012 03:31:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on News Flash: Cambodia Is Hard by Rob http://lonelygirltravels.com/2012/05/05/news-flash-cambodia-is-hard/#comment-3980 Wed, 16 May 2012 03:31:48 +0000 http://lonelygirltravels.com/?p=3267#comment-3980 Great article -very honest and non-judgemental. I’ve been here going on six years straight now. It was never my intention to stay so long without a break, but that’s how it’s turned out. Sometimes I want to leave as fast as I can and sometimes I wouldn’t want to live any place else.

I intended to teach ESL (my last job in Australia), but the pay is too poor, so I had to find an alternative and started freelance writing. I love it, but if I hadn’t been living here, I could never have gotten off the ground.

Good luck!

]]> Comment on News Flash: Cambodia Is Hard by Rachael Findlay http://lonelygirltravels.com/2012/05/05/news-flash-cambodia-is-hard/#comment-3960 Mon, 07 May 2012 07:18:18 +0000 http://lonelygirltravels.com/?p=3267#comment-3960 Yes, this!
It’s so hard to admit how difficult it is, it’s brave even. This really resonates with me.
I’m currently ‘at home’ (in Australia) for a couple of weeks after almost 8 months in Cambodia. It’s the most amazing feeling to be here – to buy underwear that fits and to walk around my neighbourhood without hearing ‘tuk tuk?’, to not even be noticed on the street. But it’s not PP. There are no mangoes, no motos with 6 mattresses strapped on the back, and sunsets suck!
So thanks for helping me to asses my options, I’m definitely coming back, at least for a little while longer :)

]]> Comment on News Flash: Cambodia Is Hard by Kim Gruber http://lonelygirltravels.com/2012/05/05/news-flash-cambodia-is-hard/#comment-3959 Mon, 07 May 2012 05:29:27 +0000 http://lonelygirltravels.com/?p=3267#comment-3959 Oops! email is kdokos@gmail.com

]]> Comment on News Flash: Cambodia Is Hard by Kim Gruber http://lonelygirltravels.com/2012/05/05/news-flash-cambodia-is-hard/#comment-3958 Mon, 07 May 2012 05:27:23 +0000 http://lonelygirltravels.com/?p=3267#comment-3958 Hi Lauren!

I think I met you at Cheap Cheap with Margaret back in February – maybe January. Reading your blog post though was like reading my journal – seems like I have been having these conversations with myself and friends a lot lately. Thanks for posting and we should have lunch or dinner again sometime :)

Kim
(my email is kdokos

]]> Comment on News Flash: Cambodia Is Hard by laurenquinn http://lonelygirltravels.com/2012/05/05/news-flash-cambodia-is-hard/#comment-3954 Sun, 06 May 2012 14:51:17 +0000 http://lonelygirltravels.com/?p=3267#comment-3954 Well, the original plan was at least a year. Gonna hold out till August and reassess then…

]]> Comment on Alex In The Hallway by claire http://lonelygirltravels.com/2012/04/26/alex-in-the-hallway/#comment-3952 Sun, 06 May 2012 13:04:35 +0000 http://lonelygirltravels.com/?p=3258#comment-3952 Indigo Psychological Services Phnom Penh http://www.indigo-cambodia.com/ we may be able to help Aex if you can persuade his parents to give us a call

]]> Comment on News Flash: Cambodia Is Hard by Z http://lonelygirltravels.com/2012/05/05/news-flash-cambodia-is-hard/#comment-3951 Sun, 06 May 2012 11:46:37 +0000 http://lonelygirltravels.com/?p=3267#comment-3951 Thanks for the post Lauren, I know I recently asked you about this and it’s good to get a more in-depth look at how it’s been. I feel sympathy for you, because it’s such a completely different case than living somewhere like Seoul. I can only imagine the difficulties and it’s made me heavily consider what I will be doing next year and where I might be going. I hope you do find the bright sides of it all whenever you can though. It’s only six months, as much as it can seem like so long when you’re living it, it’s nothing in the end.

Take care, and enjoy your smoothie :)

]]> Comment on News Flash: Cambodia Is Hard by Steffi http://lonelygirltravels.com/2012/05/05/news-flash-cambodia-is-hard/#comment-3949 Sun, 06 May 2012 09:38:47 +0000 http://lonelygirltravels.com/?p=3267#comment-3949 Do you think you will eventually get over these feelings? I’m a long-term expat but have never lived in a developing country (and probably never will). How long are you planning to stay in Cambodia?

]]> Comment on News Flash: Cambodia Is Hard by emsok http://lonelygirltravels.com/2012/05/05/news-flash-cambodia-is-hard/#comment-3948 Sun, 06 May 2012 06:34:47 +0000 http://lonelygirltravels.com/?p=3267#comment-3948 Lauren –

I can’t even explain how much this resonated with me. I lived in Israel for 3.5 years, and it was the strangest moments when I’d be hit with a wave of homesickness. I also relate to not being able to connect with natives on an authentic level, yet also not connecting to other expats. My Hebrew was not good enough to have a conversation with a stranger about anything other than how much Hebrew I know and how long I’ve lived there….and other expats moved there for different reasons than me. I also felt like I was missing out on “conversations” the way you described. And as hard as it was living in a *sorta developing country, Cambodia sounds much, much harder. Do you have any idea how long you’ll stay?

Now that I’m back home in the states, I like reading your blog to sort of put myself back in that disorienting/euphoric state…I’m nostalgic already.

]]> Comment on Livin on a CUC: Independent, Budget Travel in Cuba by tonya http://lonelygirltravels.com/2010/01/03/livin-on-a-cuc-independent-budget-travel-in-cuba/#comment-3947 Sun, 06 May 2012 03:03:16 +0000 http://lonelygirltravels.com/?p=678#comment-3947 Cuba IS touristy-over run by us Canadians. LOL

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