Travel

10 Things You Need to Know Before Moving to a New Country

#5 Drives me mental 😣

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Before I begin, I have to tell you that moving to a new country, especially a third-world country, was never something on my bucket list. It’s not like I dreamed of doing that one day.

Nope. Never.

How I ended up in Panajachel, Guatemala, almost 9 years ago is actually a very interesting story.

The journey to become a freelance writer

I’ll make this short and sweet, so this post isn’t a million words long. In summary, this is what happened to my life:

• was working as a hairstylist in Northern Ontario, Canada for 25 years
• hated my job, hated the winter
• knew it was time to do something
• also left my abusive relationship and needed to do some personal growth work
• also hit rock bottom, declared bankruptcy, and was broke af
• started volunteering at the homeless shelter to take my mind off my problems
• fell in love with all the broken, loving souls there
• decided I wanted to keep doing that, but somewhere it doesn’t snow