REVISED 5:28PM, 3/16/2023

I have been traveling and living abroad since 2011 (except for 1 year)! Go me! I’m living my dream. I worked as an English Teacher in Fukui, Japan, and Malaga, Spain. Then I got a teaching credential from UCSB, and now I’m taking a year off to travel!

Here are my general goals:

1. When teaching, or just interacting with anyone, I’d like to spread joy and positivity and inspire people to be confident.
2. Improve my Spanish, learn basic Italian, French, and German. Continue to practice my Japanese. Learn a few words in every country I visit.
3. Stay healthy
   • A plant-based diet (95 percent vegan with no guilt for occasional exceptions while traveling.)
   • Walk at least 10,000 steps every day and work out regularly.

5 year plan:

1.  Finish the year at Liceo Ingles
2. Take a year off full time work to spend more time with family in Santa Barbara, travel and visit friends in the US, and spend 3 months climbing, hiking, and visiting friends in Europe.
3. Either stay in Santa Barbara for a few years or find another job at an international school – maybe in Mexico!

Other things I would like to do:

1. Do via ferratas (a form of rock climbing) with my dad every summer
2. A yoga teacher training, perhaps in Spanish, in a warm Spanish-speaking country
3. Intensive Spanish immersion program
4. 10 day vipasana silent meditation retreat.
5. Go busking.
6. Do a road trip across the USA, stopping to car camp, hike, and rock climb.

General Knowledge I Would Like to Learn:

1. How to make balloon animals (I’m not kidding).
2. Nutrition, healthy eating, recipes, cooking, veganism, raw food, etc.
3. Meditation, breathing, yoga, relaxation techniques, etc.
4. Any kind of healing art: massage, reiki, chiropractic, reflexology…
5. All languages with focus on Spanish and Japanese.
6. How to start a non-profit, grant writing.
7. Business, finance, investing, etc.
8. More hula hoop tricks.

What I’ve Already Accomplished (in no particular order. Click the links to see photos.)