Chaiyaphum, Thailand

This was my first time flying out of the country and I have to say it was an overall great experience. I decided to go with an agency because I figured I would need a lot of support (as this is my first solo travel experience). Working with Jaemi, Will, and Molly has been great, they get back to you in a timely manner, and with all their combined travel knowledge, they are an amazing resource for almost everything you need (teaching, social scenes, restaurants, or even someone to have a good rant with lol).

I was placed in Chaiyaphum, Thailand, it is about 5 hours from Bangkok, which makes it a bit hard to travel to unless there is a long weekend. However, it is a good area with amazing food! I love the fact that TFT team took the feedback from the placement form and came up with Chaiyaphum. It has a decent-sized expat population, so there are nice restaurants around with some Western influence (One Bar and Ms. Buns). There are nice parks and plenty of things to do here. Overall, I would recommend it because it has a bit of everything, grocery stores, movie theaters, a night market, mountain trails, temples, fishing, waterfalls, vegan options, and many other convenient amenities.

Even though there are some...hiccups with some of the operational stuff on MediaKids' end (not part of TFT) I am happy that I got in contact with Jaemi and got the ball rolling to come to Thailand, at times it truly is like a dream!