Spring Break

Coming back from a trip often feels like I went through a time warp. I could almost forget that I was on a fantastic two-week trip. It started off much less than fantastic. In the morning of my flight from Cologne airport to Milan, I had to take a train from Düsseldorf to Cologne, and …

February Break

I'm going to miss having a week off in February and being able to hop on a plane to a different world. Bori and I decided to meet somewhere warm.... Lisbon Morocco

I have no idea, and that’s okay

I just watched the worst movie I've seen in a while. Post Grad. I would not recommend it. But something that one of the characters said stuck with me: "What you do with your life is really just one half of the equation. The other half, the more important half really, is who you're with …

A Taste of Christmas Time in Düsseldorf

https://youtu.be/uvjrbTYWKa8

Going on a business trip makes me feel fancy. I went to Vienna for an international math education conference. I was definitely the youngest person there, but I'm getting used to that. Sometimes I have to remind myself that it's only my 3rd year teaching and I shouldn't get mad at myself for not having …

When you leave your comfort zone, you stretch your circle and allow more things to become within your comfort zone. I sometimes laugh at how odd my comfort zone is; going to the staff Christmas party is outside of my comfort zone (and so I am not going haha), but jet-setting by myself to a …

Life, 1 second at a time

Pieces of life since September. https://youtu.be/DUVntBE_r5U

Fall Break

Man am I thankful for fall break. We have a break about every 8 weeks. This was the first break of the school year, and Bori flew into Amsterdam (cheaper flight than to Düsseldorf) and I met him there. We went to Brussels, Rome, and Lyon during the week. Here are the highlights: Brussels We met …

Kröchlendorff

I'm not used to overnight field trips for high schools. The students at my school get to go on loads of trips to different places over the years, and I was excited to chaperone a 5-day 11th grade trip to the most random unheard of place in Deutschland. After being on a bus for nearly …

Just 1 year ago…

​Exactly 1 year ago today I was considering quitting teaching altogether. I was looking at qualifications for 9-5 non-teaching jobs. I had just emailed my now-current school in Germany for the first time (with zero expectation of a response). I can't believe so much has changed in 1 year. It's even weirder how all the …