Photos and plans

Still in Bangkok, still at the Israeli guest house with free high speed internet. :) Tons of new photos up. The website is http://photos.yahoo.com/marabeth_m42 for those that have forgotten My hair is growing in--longer than my ears by about an inch. I am ready to grow it out again, I think, unless I ordain as a Buddhist nun for a month while I'm here...I may not though as I just got a potential english teaching job offer from May 10th-end of June...

Tonight I went to a capoeira class and got worked! It feels great, but I can barely walk on these jello-y legs. My next step in this journey will come in a few days: WWOOFing on an organic farm about 5 hours north of Bangkok until my Thai visa runs out May 3. :) I will then probably travel down to Malasia to get a 60 day Thai tourist visa (boarder runs are annoying and I want to focus on Thailand) and see a new country. It sounds like an amazing place from the travel stories and descriptions shared by the woman I am staying with in BKK (we met at the Vipassana retreat--she's from Holland, also 26 and seeking...), though the english teaching job would start May 10th and only leave me 3 weeks from the end of June to July 11th to play before my plane ticket ends (unless I can extend it or decide to chuck it and buy a new one later). I still want to do a yoga retreat for at least a week (pref'ly a month) on an island in the south of thailand, maybe return to Siem Reap and hopefully Sapa in northern Vietnam, and maybe sit or serve another 10-day Vipassana course in the northern Thai center which I hear is in the mountains and is very beautiful...I'm not sure the English teaching will earn me enough money to buy a new return plane ticket, so I have to think about this very carefully before I accept. It sounds and feels right at first blush, though...

I feel like my path is laid before me like a dense spiderweb covering the entire earth--a tremendous array of possible options. It's not so overwhelming now, though. It just is.