My First Post — The Traveling Teacher

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Gotcha! first post and I’m sure you’re hooked. I don’t know if I’m doing this blog thing right but we will just go with it.

Myself and half of the leaning Tower of Pisa (Should of demanded a retake!)

I was born in Sydney Australia, and come from a mixed background, my dad is Syrian and my mum is Danish. I have travelled to many countries but strangely enough I have never been to either country of my heritage.
I have a great passion for history, I always have been so intrigued by areas that were once occupied and full of life in different ways to now, whether it is walking around the colosseum imagining gladiators, to walking around Japan seeing ninjas fly from roof top to roof top to just walking through an abandoned house, imagining the life and stories made inside before the memories and ruins crumbled alone.

walking where the Pharaohs once did (still can’t believe I went here)

I must have been Japanese in a past life (my true home)

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I am currently a pre-service teacher, after leaving school and working full-time and travelling the world, the last thing I ever imagined myself was a teacher for young children, yet strangely enough I figured out my destiny while travelling in Japan and a group of well behaved school children all said hello to my partner and myself, all saying wow as he walked past as he is tall and muscley and very different to the normal guy in Japan, and the girls were waving and smiling at me. It was such a cute and nice moment that I knew I belonged in a school in Japan, teaching and helping young children grow, and as I do something that I feel is so important and fulfilling, I would be able to live and embrace a country of culture I adore with my partner who loves Japan, and feels just as much at home there as I do. In that moment I knew where I belonged.

Now I am in my Second Semester of University and it has been great! It is definitely something I love and I am so excited to make my dreams a reality. I will be going back to Japan in February which will make me even more excited to start the next year and continue my journey.