Teaching in China, leading me onto the continuous path of self-growth

Teaching English abroad has given me the fortunate opportunity to see many parts of the world. An opportunity that still remains written at the top of my gratitude journal.

In August 2018, I packed the largest suitcase I had ever packed, including a mixture of both winter and summer clothes. With a heart overfilled with love, and an anxious mind of how the year would unfold, I travelled to Asia for the very first time in my life.

I remember the feeling of cluelessness that bubbled inside, sat on the plane as I was struck with the realisation that I hadn’t mastered the arts of using chopsticks yet (however, that I can confirm I’m a pro now.)

Why are you teaching English in China?
This was the question I was repeatedly asked by friends and family before departing, to which I didn’t even know the real answer to. All I could feel was something I couldn’t possibly fathom; put into words, but, with a huge fuel of determination and a great spark of intuition – that is what powered me to drive in such direction.

But it was the adrenaline rush I remember very clearly. The plane landed on a corner of the world that I had never travelled to. This expanded my mind in a way it had never done before. I was a small child swimming in the unknown waters for the first time. I had landed in Beijing first, to begin a wholesome two weeks of teaching 12–16 year-olds at a summer camp, and then onto Shanghai, to…