Living abroad

When I decided to live abroad, in 2005, I never thought I'd be in Hanoi by mid 2007. I never disliked or was frustrated with Melbourne. I (for a number of reasons) decided to live in England; a relatively safe country for Australians: heck 3 out of my closest friends had already lived there one year when I decided it was the thing to do.

I was never really interested in Asia, but through circumstance, and some impromptu decision making, I made it here. Do I regret it? Of course not, but personally, it has been the toughest part of my life as yet. I still plan to leave next year, but I'm not sure whether that will be home, or another country. It's still a while away. It's been an experience. The top one, would have to be 4am sitting outside a brothel with the pimpin boys drinking, not being able to communicate through language barrier, and actually not realising that I was, indeed at a pimped brothel. I always wonder if they couldn't sell me. I was driving the customers away (as they were scared of a westerner), so they asked me to leave. At least, I think that's what they were saying. It could have been 5$/hr?