“Life’s a dance you learn as you go
Sometimes you lead, sometimes you follow
Don’t worry about what you don’t know
Life’s a dance you learn as you go”
-John Michael Montgomery
Throughout the last five weeks, I have been invested thoroughly and sincerely learning the moves to a new, vivid dance; the dance of my life as Cikgu (Teacher) Rachael in rural, Islamic Malaysia.
Although I have lived abroad before in both Rome and Seoul, my life has never been as different as it is now. Looking back to my time in Rome and Seoul, I realize how many little threads there were that kept me in touch and more grounded to my life in America, even while living in those cities overseas.
In Besut, Malaysia it is much more difficult to find and experience those threads. Although this creates an incredibly more challenging experience, it proposes and introduces many new opportunities for insight and growth. Over the last six weeks, I have observed, I have been learning and I have been getting acquainted to the rhythm and movements to the new dance to my life as Cikgu Rachael, step-by-step.
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