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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.



Comments

Becks Newton said…
Kia ora Viv! I love that quote what an awesome description of teaching! No wonder it is so hard!!! Thanks for the link to Nathaniel's post! It is reassuring to see that are no rules to blogging and to just focus on doing it for you! Your comments on that post really resonated with me! I felt the same way (as you read in my post!) Looking forward to hanging out more in the blogoshere! Ka kite ano!
October 6, 2015 at 12:37 AM
Anonymous said…
Great to see you blogging again Viv. I'm working hard to try to find time to develop mine too. I hope you are settled in beautiful NZ and have many more 'hair raising challenges' ahead. :)
October 12, 2015 at 6:57 PM
Wheretofromhere? said…
Thanks Becks, it's certainly a great feeling to be started again. Keeping up the process is the next challenge, enjoying hanging in the blogosphere with you!
October 15, 2015 at 10:01 AM
Wheretofromhere? said…
Excited to see you posting and to read your thoughts. :-) Not sure 'settled' is the right phrase as I don't think once you've lived in other places, as you know, you're never really fixed in one place.
October 15, 2015 at 10:03 AM
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