Traveling

As I begin my life as a working adult, I look forward to holidays more. For this year, I'll be traveling to BKK and Europe. Yes, Europe again! Burning my money. As usual I took up tuition to pay for it, so it'll be paid by one year's worth of tuition fees (actually one year of tuition fees is more than enough to cover the trip, I'll have extra to fund half a DSLR as well). 1 year of pain for 15 days of traveling, worth it? I've pretty differing views of tuition at different times. Some days if I'm tired, I will feel like tuition is a pain in the ass, but during other days, I feel happy teaching tuition cause I feel like I am making a difference.

But no regrets... Now I am at the stage where I have time, but no money. And it only takes up 2 hours of my time per week.

My itinerary for Europe trip in September: Prague -> Rome -> Santorini -> Mykonos -> Athens -> Budapest. I'll be going with Olivia, Fang and Debra.

Sometimes, I wonder if my love for traveling is driven by my mundane life at work. Overall, traveling is a very pleasant thing, I haven't met any person who dislike traveling, but perhaps I like traveling even more now that I have a job. When you have a job, you sell your time away, doing things you would not do if not for the money. And a holiday is a good break from all of that.

Life is full of trade-offs. I wish I had unlimited money to travel to every nook and cranny of the world. But nope, when I have some money, I will not have the time or the health. So I'll travel to new places within my means, cus I might never have the chance to do that next time. Meanwhile, I will earn the expenses of each trip with tuition!