After graduating with a BA at the University of the Witwatersrand and doing some odd jobs around Johannesburg, I finally packed my bags for the mountains and spent some time working as an adventure instructor at  White Mountain Lodge in the South African Drakensberg, which became my home for 3 years. The wanderlust struck, however, and it was time to move further abroad.

After a disastrous month in Taiwan, I flew to Thailand, where I have been ever since. A place of profound contradictions, friendly and beautiful people, some of the best cuisine in the world and spectacular natural scenery: I fell in love and stayed.

I spent 3 years teaching primary school children, 50 to a class in the state school system - a valuable experience, but not one that I'd care to repeat. I did the Cambridge CELTA course (an internationally recognised qualification in teaching adults) and moved on to a job at Mahanakorn University of Technology, and then Mahidol University International College where I am quite happily teaching young adults while working on my doctorate through the University of Southern Queensland in Australia.