Musings - #EdBlogNZ
Change - Transformation
#edublog challenge
This challenge, thanks to Nathaniel, has led me to do a couple of things, get back onto the blogging track and reflect on where I am now after a major change in my life. I've focussed on the recent events in my life as an educator, and started searching for some images that resonate and will enable me to use them as a way of telling my story. As Nathaniel in Teaching at the end of the Earth reflects, sometimes blogging is a series of random thoughts and ramblings. My aim to cut the eternal procrastination, is to just get it all down.
Over four years ago I departed the comfort of New Zealand to travel to Hong Kong to live as an expat educator as a professional development coach and teacher in an International School. This image is me and a couple of colleagues on my first Chinese New Year, at Ocean Park on the "Hair Raiser Roller Coaster". What a range of emotions from pure delight to absolute terror, a real rush of emotions, ups and downs, twist and turns. An apt description into the life of an expat educator settling into a school position in another country. 
While reflecting on the #edblog challenge I saw this clever description on twitter, and linking the two images together they aptly describe what the practice of teaching feels like. It's the risk taking,the 'fear' of the unknown that stimulates, motivates and excites me as a professional.
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