Welcome to 'Along the Mekong'. My name is Michael Tatarski, although I usually just go by Mike, and I have been living in Saigon, Vietnam since September of 2010. I was born and raised in New Orleans, and at some point in my upbringing I developed an intense wanderlust. I studied Political Science and History at the University of Pittsburgh, and in 2010 I took my first trip abroad, to Central Europe. By that point I had already decided that I wanted to live abroad after graduating, and within a month of finishing my studies I was living here in Saigon.
I originally came to teach English as a Second Language, but that was really just a money-making front to fund my travels. After running this blog for a few months I came to realize that I had a natural talent for writing even though I had no real background in it, so I began an internship at AsiaLIFE, one of the city's most prominent English-language magazines. In November of 2011 I also became a language editor at one of the big newspapers here. I'm now the Contributing Editor at AsiaLIFE and I officially left the teaching world in January, 2011 in order to focus on my writing/editing career.
To read examples of my published work, please visit: http://cuttings.me/users/miketatarski
I have a wide range of interests, and I hope to cover most of them on this page, so expect posts about travel, current events, food, culture, nightlife, photography, and whatever else catches my fancy on a given day. Enjoy!
I originally came to teach English as a Second Language, but that was really just a money-making front to fund my travels. After running this blog for a few months I came to realize that I had a natural talent for writing even though I had no real background in it, so I began an internship at AsiaLIFE, one of the city's most prominent English-language magazines. In November of 2011 I also became a language editor at one of the big newspapers here. I'm now the Contributing Editor at AsiaLIFE and I officially left the teaching world in January, 2011 in order to focus on my writing/editing career.
To read examples of my published work, please visit: http://cuttings.me/users/miketatarski
I have a wide range of interests, and I hope to cover most of them on this page, so expect posts about travel, current events, food, culture, nightlife, photography, and whatever else catches my fancy on a given day. Enjoy!
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| me at the southern-most point of India |
