Well it's Day 5 of my Bangkok apartment hunting fun experience. It's going alright. I've got two apartments lined up to see today. They're both on the BTS (the Bangkok Transit System) but a bit farther from the central area than I wanted to be.

I'm lucky enough that my friends have really been helping me out. The girl who I would have lived with had I taken the first apartment, Chanicha, has sent me three links to apartments for rent that I would never have found on my own (due to the fact that my Thai is a little rusty...HA). The guy I stayed with over the weekend, AJ, called me this morning and said that his friend might know of an amazing apartment available in central Bangkok which has maid service every day and all kinds of other fabulous things for 10,000 baht a month. And then my friend Nichole (who I haven't actually met yet, but Amy has, and she's my friend on Facebook and we're going to meet soon, so we're kind of friends) has sent me her realtor's information and she says there are some condos available in her area. So yeah, I've been pretty well hooked up.

Right now I'm in cafe with free wifi, fervently sending countless e-mails to all kinds of people - journalists, editors, CEOs, presidents, whatever. I don't get many responses but the ones I do get are pretty helpful. I've got two major goals right now: housing and job. Secondary to that is a visa (I have to do a visa run pretty soon because my visa expires on the 3rd of Feb.).

I went to my friend Martha's last night and she treated me to dinner and we caught up on each other's lives. She's here until end of April, so I will definitely be seeing a lot more of her. She's a happy, smiley girl and great fun to hang out with. She very kindly offered for me to stay at her place but it's pretty far from downtown, which is where I really need to be, so I've got a room in a guest house for a few days.

Bangkok is so very exciting. I do hope I feel this way about it in a few months!! 

Here are my top five apartment hunting in Bangkok tips that I've figured out so far:

  1. Work every contact you have until every single one of them is completely maxed out for resources 
  2. Check Craigslist Bangkok every 10 minutes (you never know when something is going to come up)
  3. Find an area you like and knock on random doors to see if any apartments are available (I haven't done this but my friend Nichole used the strategy to find her awesome condo in Bangkok)
  4. Check your e-mail every 10 minutes - you never know when someone is going to e-mail you back with a response that must also be responded to immediately
  5. Don't rush - at least, this is what everyone else is telling me - there's plenty of accommodation in Bangkok, they say, so chill out and let it come to you (obviously they don't know me very well lol)
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