Even as a teacher with experience, getting TEFL Certified proved to be more of a challenge than I anticipated...but not in the ways you’d think.

Anybody else feel like life under “Stay at Home” right now is just like when you wait all day to watch your favorite TV show and then it gets interrupted by breaking news that you can’t turn off, it’s on every channel, and it forces you to miss all the best parts of the show?

Three months ago I was feeling stuck. Stuck in a rut at work, stuck in my hometown, stuck wondering when I would finally must the courage to chase my dreams. In my journal, I penned a list of resolutions I wanted to accomplish in 2020. Then, I decided to change my mindset. What if, instead of resolutions, I set intentions for the New Year? The semantics may seem insignificant, but to me it made all the difference. Having intentions meant I WOULD accomplish them, rather than just resolve to try. The theme of this journal entry was “Growth & Gratitude.” The first intention on the list? “Challenge myself: new places,…