I’ve been living in Thailand for 1.5 years already, quickly approaching 2. My dream destination for all my life, if ever there was one. No doubt, a dream destination for many people in the world. I moved here to work at a beautiful Montessori school that I found online when I was looking to escape the horrors of the international […]
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A Year of Pain
2019 did not get off to that start that I was hoping for on January 1st, as I slept through midnight celebrations at my cousin’s house in Kingston, in preparation for a morning of music, dancing, endless coconut water, and spicy ackee tacos. Instead of continuing on that high note; my year very quickly took a crash, without my knowledge—spiralling […]
It Takes A Village
I never really understood the value of community until recently. As a loner, I’ve always felt the most comfortable in the presence of my own self. It’s always been safer, easier even, to stay away from spaces that call for socialisation and spend all my free time with myself. So of course exploring the world on my own has never […]
Be, and Then Share
The type of awareness I need to have to work with children in the Montessori environment and beyond has been by far the most intimate, ego-shattering, revolutionary thing I have experienced in this life. They do not miss a single opportunity to humble me, or call me out on my bs, with nothing more than a single glance, and out […]