A Word About Me…

My name is Eira; which is the Welsh word for snow, even though I was born in July. I am from Southampton, England, but I have had the great privilege of living in Lop Buri, Thailand, teaching English to 4-year-old darlings who smell of sweets and farts and baby powder. De-jai! I’m one of those that packed off to university trailing streamers of optimism and big ambition who then found themselves graduating hideously in debt and further behind in the rat race than their friends who just did the sensible thing and got jobs at sixteen. Ah me. I’m not out though; before you start to panic that reading further will lead you down a bubble vision path of impending Armageddon for my kind, be aware that I’m utterly content with my lot. I’ve done the only sensible thing; stuck my head in the sand and run away around the world! The very thing in fact that led me to start this blog. I am, ahem, *attempting* to document my pipe-dreams of travel and would you believe it, I’ve even made a few of them come true. After all, I’ve got my whole life to put my English Literature degree to work in a local government office but right now shoving my life into a canvas sack and getting lost miles from home seems much more appealing. The name Blue Fairy is from the art business I ran in the UK before I stampeded to the other side of the world and you can read more about that here – www.bluefairyart.wix.com/eira or just look it up on facebook if you feel so inclined! I’ve also recently started doing the Twitter thing and am desperately in need of some attention in that department to stop me feeling like I’m talking to myself and checking for hairs on my palms. So if you’ve yet to do your good deed for the day – go on, give us a follow, you’ll get to hear about all the ridiculous little peculiarities of living and working in small-town Thailand, which, I can assure you, is occasionally much more fun to read about than to live!