so teaching in japan
i will never go back the reason being is
because
this is a typical morning for me in
japan during the pandemic
we aren't in lockdown but days are
slower more chill
i wake up make some gluten-free organic
oatmeal and get to work on my projects
because
i believe that now is the best time to
start a project you've been meaning to
start
this entire time i've been working on
ways to deliver my passion
and share some creativity and
inspiration with the world
i don't know about you but i've learned
more about myself through this
quarantine than i have
ever before what a great time to get to
know yourself
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okay so we have these like really white
eggplants what is this i've never seen a
white eggplant before
and then we have like these huge purple
ones these gorgeous ones
these are amazing what is this apple
mango
this store is amazing i get it an app
what is an apple mango
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i'm so good at holding everything my
back once i stopped caring about other
people's judgments of me my
imperfections
physical and mental once i took more
risks
as soon as i focused on me without
feeling the limiting belief of being
selfish as we all do things just started
to happen
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earthquake is coming i don't feel
anything
they always it always goes off when
it always goes off when there's nothing
though it's weird
do you feel anything
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why did i leave the opportunity to
continue teaching in japan
well it's because it wasn't my purpose
i loved teaching i loved being with my
students and i
soon came to realize that i loved
teaching but i didn't love being managed
by another school
it limited my creativity and inspiration
it held me back from creating a better
environment for my students
and english wasn't ultimately what i
loved teaching and then i realized i
could teach something completely
different in my own way
my own classroom related to the country
i loved
and with my skills in social media just
because you're good at something
doesn't mean you love it and you have to
find that balance
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do you think it's worthwhile sending
kind of um i'm on
10 minutes celery man life
talking too much my voice is gone
this is pretty good so the camera is so
lopsided i actually found this folder
in my room lots of little letters
from my students and my kids but i'll
show you some things that they gave me
because
this stuff meant a lot to me and it made
me
keep going and inspired me more the kids
really enjoyed my classes and loved what
i did
so teaching in japan
i will never go back the reason being is
because
not because of teaching kids i love
teaching
it comes naturally to me it's a gift
that i have
and that i will always cultivate with
everything that i do because to teach is
part of my purpose it's part of my life
living in
japan and teaching i think is the most
eye-opening experience that you will
ever have so if you've never done it
before
i highly highly recommend it because
it's something that just changes for
your perspective
on life and on things and to see a child
smile when they learn or to see
an adult grow when you teach them these
things especially when it comes to
language
is such a great tool to have
in life and to be able to do that is
such a gift
and it was one of the most rewarding
things i've ever done
some teachers want direction some
teachers want a curriculum handed to
them
being told what to do and how to execute
it
and that's okay there's a lot of people
out there that are like that that will
take a job
and you know do the best in whatever
they're given i
am such a creative imaginative person
and i couldn't release that i couldn't
let that out
i couldn't cultivate that i couldn't i
couldn't i had limits
and the fact that i had limits
made me not want to
work in a position where i was told
how to teach how to create
activities or curriculums there were set
rules i couldn't break
i had other ideas in mind and i couldn't
release that creativity i couldn't do
anything to my full full potential my
teaching methods and the things that i
do mean a lot to me
you know ultimately it's up to the
company of what they do and
and you can't you don't have much of a
say in how things are run
and i just felt limited in my job
most people most teachers you know come
out of this
with a new perspective and enjoy their
experience and love what they do
but my purpose part of my purpose is to
teach and it wasn't
what ultimately i aspired to
do with my gift of teaching
if that makes sense so it wasn't about
the kids it's not like
ugh i hate kids i don't want to teach
anymore it was more of
i felt like i was in this box and i
needed to get out so doing
teaching or teaching for you know the
first three years
living here i enjoyed it so much and you
know i had good jobs and i had bad jobs
everybody you know has that overall i
really
loved it and i experienced a lot and i
grew a lot and i learned a lot and
it was a very eye-opening experience and
it was exciting and the fact that i was
in such a beautiful country and doing
this
for these amazing bright-minded kids was
just so rewarding this little girl has
probably grown
so much so i'm just gonna show it this
was from one of my old schools
her name was sakurako and she was so
funny and so fluent in english that's me
i i knew that all of these things that i
loved and was good at all of these
skills all these strengths that i had
could become something more and the
reason why i quit
is because i wanted to break free from
my limitations and teach something that
i was
really passionate about and i love
language teaching but language is not
really
what is aligned with what i want to do
or what i feel
i could give back to the world my
purpose had a name
and that name was to inspire
i realized that i liked creating a
storytelling type
series on my youtube channel and i
really wanted to share my truths
and how i've grown i wanted to show
share the negative side of living in
japan that ultimately led me to
the positive sides of living in japan
and the positive mindset and the lessons
learned
because oftentimes people sit and
complain and get negative about things
but they don't see the lesson in it and
they don't see
the growth in it and i wanted to share
that part because that's
that's the that journey to become
resilient and that's what i want to
teach
to other people is to find resilience
and to make mistakes and to not be
perfect and to
cultivate the real you and that's what
i'm passionate about and it all
is thanks to living in this country
because i learned a lot i started
implementing those lessons
into my girl abroad series especially in
the earlier
season it was all about you know mindset
and self-development and that's honestly
what i want to move towards because i
went through a lot in my life quitting
your job is tough
your job is what pays your bills but
your work is not your job your
work is what you do on purpose
everything that i'm doing is
so freaking risky it's scary
it scares me you have to turn that fear
into excitement
because that's ultimately what's going
to move you forward
in your life can't show the face
but this is me with a student got a lot
of these pictures and
i'm very grateful for these pictures i
got a lot of gifts and flowers a lot of
super nice letters
teaching kids is probably the best thing
ever
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look at your outfit today summer
you are ready rainy season is over
finally yes
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maybe we should go to the museum first
and then find somewhere to eat
the most dangerous risk of all resulting
in regret
is the risk of spending your life not
doing what you want
on the bet you can buy yourself the
freedom to do it later
most of the time we have regrets
surrounding fear but
what is fear really we see fear as the
enemy
we say it's because of fear that's
what's holding me back
but blame won't get us anywhere we have
100
control over our actions
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here
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this is what they're selling right now
oh is just that overprotective friend
keeping you from possible pain and fear
can protect us
yes in so many situations so we should
feel grateful to have that but
we need to start to recognize that fear
in conjunction to the things we strive
for
is our true selves trying to escape it's
a feeling of a door
opening and our cue to just do it
so women used to be 145 centimeters and
men were 155 which is shorter than me
and they had
they put black stuff on their teeth
their teeth after marriage and to shave
their outer eyebrows after being blessed
with the first child
why so glad i don't have to do that
i can't say that cat has a problem
it looks really big
his legs look really deformed
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look back on your failures your history
or look at any failures that happened
recently
within our past lies clues to the
actions we need to take to move forward
if we don't see our failures as an
option for growth
we can't change and in conjunction to
that we have to realize that not all
rules in society are set
these rules in society keep us in line
yes but
they don't define us we have the power
to do what we want to become a better
person
whether it's quitting a job deciding on
doing something completely different
from what we set out to do
or wearing that neon pink t-shirt you
love and everyone else hates
we create our own destiny we create our
reality
it's interesting because i feel like a
lot of the people that run the shops
here
are like older and they've been here for
so long
so they've probably seen so much change
in the area
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you