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Wednesday 13 January 2016
Sunday 26 October 2014
god only knows.
what i would do, if releases we're not possible.
In this world, where we get tripped into and caught up in the very things we invest into.
a captivating outlet for the soul is what can help you gain momentum.
Be Kind to yourself!
Happy Monday all…
i haven't abandoned you just yet, i've just had some things to work out.
but I've got some posts saved for you.
In this world, where we get tripped into and caught up in the very things we invest into.
a captivating outlet for the soul is what can help you gain momentum.
Be Kind to yourself!
Happy Monday all…
i haven't abandoned you just yet, i've just had some things to work out.
but I've got some posts saved for you.
Friday 10 October 2014
ladies repeat after me:
i am a super woman. yes i am.
still when we are a mess, we still put on a vest with an S on our chest.
this is for : for all the mothers fighting for better days to come, all the women trying so hard to come home before the sun, and for all my sisters coming together.
say yes i will, yes i can.
I am a super woman, yes i am. yes she is.
still when we are a mess, we still put on a vest with an S on our chest.
this is for : for all the mothers fighting for better days to come, all the women trying so hard to come home before the sun, and for all my sisters coming together.
say yes i will, yes i can.
I am a super woman, yes i am. yes she is.
the cat found a habitat
to a cat, a warm dry place to sleep and perform daily tasks is without a doubt mandatory. So can you visualise my delight when i found an apartment within only 2 hours or less of searching.
It's only a room teacher tina translated from chinese to english for me. I can live in just a room, i thought. I've done it before i'm from London just a room is doable. There's no kitchen tina said.
and there it was. hmm I'll see it I said. Soon after i learnt that kitchens are not necessity here.
4pm sharp came, and my manager approached me and said shall we go and view it? I of course said yes, big smile on my face but trying hard to remain professional and not resemble a child who'd been told we're going to get ice cream.
Now how many of you can say you rode on the back of your managers scooter the first day you met them?
Well i can. I was asked if i wanted to drive my own and honestly I was about to say yes. I have said before in my life I will do things when i've never done them before and definitely didn't feel comfortable doing it. But i decided i like my health and safety and i want to do things the right way and learn before doing. Plus, in taiwan they drive on the opposite side of the road, need i say more.
So i hopped on, feeling awkward a little and my manager zoomed off in direction of the apartment. I don't know if the speed limit was legal but i was scared.
Just a room they said. JUST A ROOM. they forget to mention the panoramic window that took up an entire wall, the brand new flat screen television installed for my use, the biggest refrigerator I have ever owned, a great bed for rolling around in, closet that for fits all my clothes but i will fix that and a modest cute bathroom.
I'll take it. No questions asked. Chinese was exchanged, contract signed and voila. That's where i am right now. although i am without pillows, sheets, and a blanket which taiwan ikea will take a role in
so for now, no pictures but a before and after will be up just give me a month to find my paws.
The amenity i was most excited about at that time was the internet. When you are in a new country, and don't speak the language you value the importance of the internet. I went 4 days without it, and i felt almost cut off from the rest of my family and the world. I couldn't understand the news, I couldn't talk to my boyfriend, I couldn't call my sister and by then i'd missed two episodes of project runway and my fuse was running short. I jumped from hot spot to hot spot. and became irritated and not being able to communicate with back home.
I realised, the internet in it's essence is a tool not to be taken for granted. I once used to despise how much people would broadcast on the internet and did not enjoy that lives were so publicly displayed. But away from social media, is a man made tool that we now rely on. It is sometimes the cause and the cure of human destruction.
That post is for another day, as all is right and harmony has been restored.
I have the internet back, and i can go back to researching relevant things in life. Like, does chocolate milk make you fat? and what is the chinese symbol for body cream.
till next time,
signed allie
It's only a room teacher tina translated from chinese to english for me. I can live in just a room, i thought. I've done it before i'm from London just a room is doable. There's no kitchen tina said.
and there it was. hmm I'll see it I said. Soon after i learnt that kitchens are not necessity here.
4pm sharp came, and my manager approached me and said shall we go and view it? I of course said yes, big smile on my face but trying hard to remain professional and not resemble a child who'd been told we're going to get ice cream.
Now how many of you can say you rode on the back of your managers scooter the first day you met them?
Well i can. I was asked if i wanted to drive my own and honestly I was about to say yes. I have said before in my life I will do things when i've never done them before and definitely didn't feel comfortable doing it. But i decided i like my health and safety and i want to do things the right way and learn before doing. Plus, in taiwan they drive on the opposite side of the road, need i say more.
So i hopped on, feeling awkward a little and my manager zoomed off in direction of the apartment. I don't know if the speed limit was legal but i was scared.
Just a room they said. JUST A ROOM. they forget to mention the panoramic window that took up an entire wall, the brand new flat screen television installed for my use, the biggest refrigerator I have ever owned, a great bed for rolling around in, closet that for fits all my clothes but i will fix that and a modest cute bathroom.
I'll take it. No questions asked. Chinese was exchanged, contract signed and voila. That's where i am right now. although i am without pillows, sheets, and a blanket which taiwan ikea will take a role in
so for now, no pictures but a before and after will be up just give me a month to find my paws.
The amenity i was most excited about at that time was the internet. When you are in a new country, and don't speak the language you value the importance of the internet. I went 4 days without it, and i felt almost cut off from the rest of my family and the world. I couldn't understand the news, I couldn't talk to my boyfriend, I couldn't call my sister and by then i'd missed two episodes of project runway and my fuse was running short. I jumped from hot spot to hot spot. and became irritated and not being able to communicate with back home.
I realised, the internet in it's essence is a tool not to be taken for granted. I once used to despise how much people would broadcast on the internet and did not enjoy that lives were so publicly displayed. But away from social media, is a man made tool that we now rely on. It is sometimes the cause and the cure of human destruction.
That post is for another day, as all is right and harmony has been restored.
I have the internet back, and i can go back to researching relevant things in life. Like, does chocolate milk make you fat? and what is the chinese symbol for body cream.
till next time,
signed allie
school is cool.
This week, new things have been revealed to me. Lets start with Monday, after 2 days of living with 2 of my new colleagues Bronwen & Cheyne. Both from Cape Town & everyone is convinced that we sound alike.
we don't. However great girls and i really look forward to working with them.
fast forward to a time after visiting the beach,
having pizza for dinner
and riding a bike…everywhere. I picked the perfect not too try hard not to casual cream shirt and i arrived at the school i would be working at. I was proud to say I wasn't a nervous wreck more anxious…excited
the routine went something like this.
Meet class, class freak out, watch class, class ends and every child is so excited to say bye teacher allie or just say teacher allie in general. But that wasn't always the case, one little girl had been crying since lunch at the thought of meeting a new teacher. I can recognise the fear, not only was I a new teacher, with a new accent, I was a new teacher with big curly hair and dark skin. For many Taiwanese people, I may be the first black individual they have ever encountered. But more on that later
Observing children is fascinating, and these children are learning a new language and developing as humans. With each day that went by I grew increasingly excited at the prospect of teaching them and exhibiting the language to which i communicate with the world.
my highlight of the week, was singing we are going on a bear hunt during exercise time with all the kindergarten classes. Since this day, I have been vigorously searching for this version to download to iTunes however so far have been unsuccessful.
by the end of the week, i was i want to say tired. but i was more sleepy than tired.
THEN, it dawned on me. I'm tired from observing, I haven't even started teaching yet. I would definitely need more bananas and i intend to stock up on an interesting drink I found in 7/11 which incorporates every fruit and vegetable possible. Cause I ain't trying to get bags under my eyes hunnay. So deliver me a truck load of things that are green and as many bottles of water you can find.
And so, I am now 22 books and uncountable flash cards heavier. (which i carried in the rain)
But it's okay because I HAVE A BRAND NEW APARTMENT and they look so great colour co-ordinated stacked here. I just have to work on transporting them to and from school.
I need a transportation device for them, i think they call it a backpack.
we don't. However great girls and i really look forward to working with them.
fast forward to a time after visiting the beach,
having pizza for dinner
and riding a bike…everywhere. I picked the perfect not too try hard not to casual cream shirt and i arrived at the school i would be working at. I was proud to say I wasn't a nervous wreck more anxious…excited
the routine went something like this.
Meet class, class freak out, watch class, class ends and every child is so excited to say bye teacher allie or just say teacher allie in general. But that wasn't always the case, one little girl had been crying since lunch at the thought of meeting a new teacher. I can recognise the fear, not only was I a new teacher, with a new accent, I was a new teacher with big curly hair and dark skin. For many Taiwanese people, I may be the first black individual they have ever encountered. But more on that later
Observing children is fascinating, and these children are learning a new language and developing as humans. With each day that went by I grew increasingly excited at the prospect of teaching them and exhibiting the language to which i communicate with the world.
my highlight of the week, was singing we are going on a bear hunt during exercise time with all the kindergarten classes. Since this day, I have been vigorously searching for this version to download to iTunes however so far have been unsuccessful.
by the end of the week, i was i want to say tired. but i was more sleepy than tired.
THEN, it dawned on me. I'm tired from observing, I haven't even started teaching yet. I would definitely need more bananas and i intend to stock up on an interesting drink I found in 7/11 which incorporates every fruit and vegetable possible. Cause I ain't trying to get bags under my eyes hunnay. So deliver me a truck load of things that are green and as many bottles of water you can find.
And so, I am now 22 books and uncountable flash cards heavier. (which i carried in the rain)
But it's okay because I HAVE A BRAND NEW APARTMENT and they look so great colour co-ordinated stacked here. I just have to work on transporting them to and from school.
I need a transportation device for them, i think they call it a backpack.
I did say 6 of 1, not half of a dozen.
After a 4 days of observations, a public holiday, 1 hot pot and A NEW APARTMENT later.
you guys are in for a treat this saturday morning/ early morning/ friday night.
the blog is back (cue, the boys are back in town track)
…and fade out.
you guys are in for a treat this saturday morning/ early morning/ friday night.
the blog is back (cue, the boys are back in town track)
…and fade out.
Sunday 28 September 2014
1.
blog after blog after blog after blog. I hope that i stick at this one.
Now, 72 hours later here I am. morning looming, sitting on the bottom edge of my bed, my hotel room mate and potential colleague asleep although i can't complain she talks the majority of the time but she is all together a very nice lady and headphones over my afro; the hotel digital clock reads 02:57am. 02:58am it will be soon be 3am going on 03:30am.
I am young, and was forced by my own mind to decide on a way to make the make belief believable. I have few fears, but the fears I have are matched with insecurities. alike many of the other transitioning young adults my age, I'm workin' on it, just wait on it. I am not afraid to lay my mind bare for all of you to see. I am enabling myself this year to show the vulnerabilities. The impurities and raw truths. Isn't that exciting for you to read? Censor where necessary.
Moment
of truth.
What does tomorrow hold for me? I will no longer be looked upon as a girl. I am now a young woman making my way through the world but i still cut my toast into squares and my sandwiches into triangles. Tomorrow, I will take my place in the horizontal line beside other women of ages that to me will be unknown.
With so much to take in, and my inquisitiveness at an all time high. In Asia, I am anon. anonymous. Cheeky jimmy neutch turning heads, roaming the streets of the T (taiwan).
I'm more penny proud than pepper ann and more woman of the moment than YMCB.
In 3 hours, i will awaken from the crisp white sheets which might i add have the signature of made in china, and i will put my best foot forward and whatever odds may lie ahead I will be sure to defy them.
communication and making situations work to my advantage are my forte. and i laugh when i'm nervous i also touch my nose on the left side.
04:49am, 04:50am. 5
I am ready to bask in my own company, and blossom into the soon 22 year old woman i am intended to be by living purely in the moment. I am not giving very much of myself away, and i will reveal myself if only in the dead of night. Alike tonight, the voice of a wolf in the body of an antelope. (a very small antelope that is) With my loved ones now only a distant sound vibration over the phone.
the laughs, eye opening moments, frustrations, captivating breakthroughs, the accomplishments, the crash landings, the rewards presented unconventionally, the longing for cuddles in bed, the language barriers, the new transportation and ever lasting need for translation. Oh, I'm so ready for it all. the people I will intertwine myself with, the culture i will immerse myself in. the long days at work, and the excitement in the morning to enter the classroom, the new beginnings and the chapter endings and most of all the unknown. The great unknown. i know, i know, i know.
I'm not scared
Come get me.
I am my own best friend, and my sister and sim too they are only a phone call away. I know they're prepared. we've been doing this for years!
Whoever you are reading this, and as your eyes meet the page remember to seek out your own adventure whilst you read the beginning of my own. i hope to stay fly, and i hope to waste no time.
I move fast, so please keep up. & if you call and i don't answer the phone always leave a message.
But
for now.
I'm here. And I'm awake.
05:03. breakfast at 7
signed allycat
x
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