This is my life

I spent my entire life in the same small prairie town in Canada, and for most of my life, I dreamed of traveling.  When I was a very young child, I didn't realise that travel was where my interests lay, but my childhood dreams and aspirations should have given me a pretty good clue about what I would later on do with my life: when I was a very little girl, my dream was to learn how to speak every language in the world.  As I grew older, speaking English at home and attending a French Immersion school, and as I realised how difficult it is to learn just one additional language, I soon realised that this dream was impossible.  When I attended university, I satisfied my childhood dream by choosing majors that allowed me to discover where (most of) our language today comes from (Classics/Greek/Latin) and to learn all about the inner workings of language, the deep structure and the surface structure of language (linguistics).  If I can't learn all the languages, I guess I figured I would learn how to talk about them as scientifically as possible.

By the time I convocated, my feet were so itchy, staying in Canada to do graduate work was not an option (it's kind of a regret-- I would have loved to have done graduate work in linguistics!).  But, I try to live my life with no regrets.  I'm trying (more and more) to be open to every new experience open to me.  I have lived in Korea for three years, France for about five months, and Kuwait for one year.  I have also backpacked all over Asia and through much of the Middle East.  A week ago, on a whim, I moved to Mongolia.  I've finally decided it's high time I started a blog and shared my experiences with the world, even if nobody listens or nobody cares.  I'm going to share my experiences by sharing one new photo a day (there may be days when that is not possible, since the internet connection here in Ulaanbaatar is not always reliable, but I'll certainly do my best).  I'll only post photos which I took myself and the aim is to post only current photos (from within the past two weeks of the posting date), although occasionally, I might also post a photo from my past five years of traveling.  If you're reading this, I guess it means you found this blog.  If you find this blog, I hope you enjoy it!

Door Knocker from the Choijin Lama Temple Museum in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia