It’s hour 5 of sitting here. I am the new receptionist at a very high end resort on the southern more secluded side of Koh Tao. My job is to check guests in and out, show them to their rooms, and other basic hotel receptionist things you could think of. As I sit here on my second day, my mind is racing and I begin to question everything. How did I get here? Is this where I want to be? Where would I be if I werent right here, right now?
I find that life is the biggest series of little events, all linked together, and all unknowingly correspond with one another to lead you to where you are in this very minute.
I can think of the event that may have lead me here. It was the day I met Mike, I was working as a waitress at Chilis at the time, and left my shift early because I attended my friends funneral earlier that day and was just not up for working. When I got home, I laid around on my couch and recieved a text from some friends going to a food and truck festical at the winery. I decided I might as well go, it was doing me no good sitting at home. When i went, I obviously instagrammed a picture. That’s when Mike (Who’s number I didnt have, and how he had mine is still a mystery) sent me a text asking if I were still there and told me to come meet him by the live band. And that was that. We’ve been dating since. That chain of events, has lead me to this man. Who has his own chain of events that lead him to me, and somehow all of these things have interconnected and lead us to here. Living together abroad and just figuring it out. Not knowing that every action and decision we currently are making will inevitably lead us down the next path that life is meant to take us down.
To get to my job I take the bike about 5 minutes down to the more south side of the island, and park it in a small alley. I than walk through a resort than onto the beach. I walk the beach for a few minutes and it leads up to a concrete bridge. The bridge looks like a sidewalk, no walls or boundaries and a steep fall into shallow waters. The bridge leads you to a restaurant, where you take your shoes off, pass through, than put your shoes back on and continue to a wooden bridge. Than you walk some more beach until you hit a path leading to the forest. Follow that path to the resort, walk a plethora of steps and you make it. Saturday is my day off. I have a morning date with a coconut shake at the beach and hopefully Mike will be done diving in time to join me for an afternoon hike.
Scuba Sex Sunshine 
Sounds like a lovely place to work Cassie. I am detecting that you are a slight bit home sick. I think this is natural, I know when Dave flew us to Marsh Harbor, Abaco Island for 14 days, I missed my family by the 6-8 day or so. Back then you did not have cell phones or any other form of communication. Somehow Dave got me thru my homesickness (both times we went there) and we had a wonderful adventure……it is where Danalyn was conceived – our second trip there. She is our Bahama baby from her Bahama Mama!! (see that – a little known fact that we now share lol) In all seriousness, you are where you are suppose to be. Enjoy your job and miss that guy of yours during the days so that you can both be happy when you are together. Sending extra USA hugs, Nana Lindy ❤
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I’m not homesick at all! I lived in California for 4 years and only came home 3 times for no longer than a week each. I’m used to being away and enjoy it 🙂
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Sounds like a great place. So glad you are following your dreams.
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I agree Cassie with Lindy, live your days to the fullest, you will have good days, and bad Days, and you are being honest, love that about the both of you. Enjoy your paradise and each other,
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love reading you and mike’s daily stories….happy for both of you you found awesome jobs and are living the life and your dreams xoxoxoox keep the stories coming xoxoxoxoxo
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