We had been teaching for about a month when we were informed of an upcoming holiday. The Qingming Festival, otherwise known as Tomb-Sweeping Day, is a festival dedicated to honouring ancestors, cleaning grave sites, and paying respect through ritual offerings. […]
It was the third night in Beijing. A group of us headed out to explore the night markets hidden within a lively main street. The street was alive with vividly coloured fluorescent lights, bustling people, and dance groups. People stopped […]
In 2017, I was studying to become a secondary English teacher. In 2018, I dropped out of university and moved to China to teach English to kindergarteners. Why? I wanted to add a bit of excitement and spontaneity to my […]
High school was a stressful time. I had teachers breathing down the back of my neck, life-determining exams, and I was failing maths. To top it all off, I was expected to decide on my future career path within a […]
During my eighth week of teaching kindergarten, a tragedy occurred within my family back in Australia. It hit me hard and I took the day off from school. When I came into school the next day, my kids were ECSTATIC […]
When I was seventeen years old, I was exhausted. Exhausted from what, you ask? I had just started my first year of university and was constantly being called in to work my casual retail job. Catching a bus to university […]