hollyinjapan
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Registered: March 2010
Location: West Tokyo
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My Journey
Sometimes I think about how I got here, where I am now. In Japan, English language editor and teacher, scrapbook teacher, wife, mother, traveler, adventurer. What steps in my life led me here.
I remember playing classroom on the basement steps. My dolls and teddy-bears the students, me the teacher using my mom's old school books to teach.
I started babysitting at the age of 11. I got my first job as a swim teacher's assistant at the age of 12. I was a lifeguard by the age of 15. I would babysit, teach swimming, lifeguard and coach he swim teams for the next 6 years.
By the age of 17 I managed to become CAP squadron commander, student council representative, youth-group president, and various other posts representing my organizations.
In my youth, I loved being around younger children, teaching them, watching over them, leading them, encouraging them to achieve their dreams.
I started to feel the desire to see the world my sophomore year in university. Switched my major to international business, interned for the governor of Colorado. Was told that I needed international experience in order to get an international job. Within 2 months I was in Japan, once again as a teacher and as a student.
In my young adulthood, I yearned for adventure, world travel, to see and experience different countries and cultures. To make myself a bigger version of me, to widen my horizons and opportunities.
I never wanted to be a teacher per se. It was never even on my list of desired professions. Astronaut, fighter pilot, fashion designer, yes. Teacher, no. And yet here I am. All of my life has been leading me here. Looking back I see how God has brought me exactly here, to this point in time, this place.
"The longings of your heart, then, are not incidental: they are critical messages. The desires of your heart are not to be ignored: they are to be consulted. As the wind turns the weather vane, so God uses your passions to turn your life." (Max Lucado)
And it makes me wonder where I will be 20 years from now. Will I still be here? My heart's desires have not changed, I still have a great desire to see more of the world, to share any knowledge or experience I have that might be of use to other people.
My journey has been an interesting one. I thank God for leading me here and I pray he will continue to guide me throughout this journey called life.
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all papers and elements from Around the World by The Digichick Designers
As seen in the Sept 2011 Artisan Notebook
Thank you so much for looking!
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