Hello Im Ben

Posted by zipben on November 20th, 2007 | Categorized as General Forum, Introduction | 340 views and 12 Comments

Ok so ive been putting of posting my intro for the last couple of days but i guess now ill just get it done.

My name is Ben Donaldson and ive ived overseas since i was 11. I was born in Canada but as many of you can probably appreciate it doesnt feel like home anymore. I moved to china when i was 11 because my dad was supposed to start a branch of his distance education school over there. After one year though it fell through and we went home to canada. We were there for the summer and my mom decided she wanted to spend more time overseas so we moved back to china to the same city we were in and my parents got jobs at an internationaly school called Qingdao International School. I went to this school for about two years until the SARS crisis in China and we were forced to move back home. I guess at that point i was happy to move back “home” but within a year i was tired of it. I came from a small town that no one ever left and when i got back things that i had never clued into before became glaringly obvious. Things like races ism and ignorance of other cultures. I started getting in trouble with my friends parents because i would correct there over generalizations about places like the middle east telling them over dinner that there was in fact places in the middle east that were safe to travel in. After about two years of this my mother and i were both getting tired of Canada so she went to an international job fair and found a job in Almaty Kazkhstan. We moved there for two years until i graduated and now im back in canada saving for university, but im having trouble saving because all i want to do is go hop on a plane and get out of here again. Im going into hotel management so hopefully that nets me a job overseas which is where i want to be.

So thats my life in a nutshell