During my third year of university, I was lucky enough to avoid the “what next?” panic of my fellow students. Struggling to juggle their final year exams with their flailing attempts at finding a job, I watched on smugly as I contemplated the cushy job I had lined up working as a kindergarten teacher in […]
Growing up, I have fond memories of spending rainy afternoons creating mood boards with my sister. We’d cut up stacks of my mum’s old magazines and use the images to design our dream lives: beautiful houses, smiling families, luxurious holidays. It would always leave me with an infectious feeling of excitement about the future and […]
What do you imagine when you picture yourself living abroad for a period of time? Maybe strolling through wine vineyards in Italy or going surfing after work every day in Hawaii or reading a magazine in an outdoor cafe in France. After recently returning home with my boyfriend after working for 6 months as kindergarten […]
For this first personal post that I’m writing, I thought I’d start with a topic that is very close to my heart…dealing with loss. When I was seventeen, my mum passed away from cancer and ever since, my family and I have been coming to terms with loss and how to live with it. For […]
My boyfriend, being the supportive person he is, always reads my blog posts and gives me feedback on them. His ongoing piece of advice recently has been to write posts that are more personal. He said that I should talk about things that I’ve been through and am going through currently. Open up and speak […]
