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Women Who Travel Podcast: A Life Changing Move to Rural Thailand
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Charissa Enget needed to find an engineering course she could afford. She found one in rural Thailand, where she got a scholarship and living costs were low. It took her six months to learn the language so she could communicate with fellow students, make friends, and travel round the country at weekends. After two years, she decided that Thailand would always be a part of her life. Today, she leads trips to share her adventures and introduce American women to her friends and local families.
Lale Arikoglu: Hi there. It's me, Lale Arikoglu, with an episode of Women Who Travel, where we hear another of our regular listener dispatchers.
Charissa Enget: My name is Charissa Enget. I applied to a bunch of universities for master's programs, and decided to move to Thailand without knowing anyone there and without speaking the language, just to have the adventure of a lifetime. In engineering courses in the US, I had a lot of foreign teachers, that's just the nature of engineering, they were from all over the world. I knew that whatever courses came my way, I could handle them. I was just more afraid of making friends and not being lonely, and being able to learn the language, and making sure I had fun while I was there.
LA: Many American college students take a study abroad program that's set up and regulated by that alma mater, and it often costs quite a bit of money. Charissa Enget wanted to find a cheap opportunity to study in a different country for her whole degree.
CE: I didn't do it through my old university, I just enrolled and applied for an English speaker scholarship. I didn't have to pay for my university at all, it was completely covered. I also got a graduate salary, so my housing, my food, it was all covered. The cost of living there is super inexpensive, so I was able to afford to go to islands on the weekends or go on weekend trips.
LA: This is her story of her move from Texas to Thailand with very little solo travel experience behind her, and she had her fair share of hiccups, so she's here to share learnings on how to live and study overseas.
CE: I think living abroad is a lot different from traveling abroad, just because you really get to know the people and experience the culture, and it changes your way of thinking a lot more. Thailand changed the way I interact with people in a lot of ways, and I feel bonded to Thailand for the rest of my life. It really changed the way I want to live my life, and I'll never stop loving Thailand or traveling back there as much as I can.
I wasn't planning to go that far originally. My family was super nervous. My mom was like,
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