More About Me
I grew up enjoying being captured, and later on taking pictures myself. Even before YouTube was a thing, I liked making videos of experiences I had as a child. When I learned vlogging was a thing, I started to capture life to share it with friends and family overseas.
After this 90’s woman lived life and graduated high school in the Netherlands, I explored the exchange student life in the United States of America where I called Florida, the sunshine state, my second home. This experience taught me to shed my shy side I’d shown back at home, and I learned that I was actually quite extraverted - of course my close friends knew how I would show myself. Living abroad started a daily vlogging path. I’d seen myself grow from a teenager to a young woman. I’m quite grateful for being able to look back at that moment in my life.
After experiencing the U.S. high school system, I traveled back for one year of college in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. At the Hogeschool van Amsterdam, HvA, I started learning the traits of a primary teacher, and I enjoyed the internships a lot. However, classes seemed to lack challenges, and I wanted to look back later on in life while enjoying all aspects of college. I researched my way back to Florida, and even grew to be a bigger part of the college community at Pasco-Hernando State College (PHSC). I joined clubs, ran charity events, and I even became president as I studied and got good grades. I learned a lot about the educational system in Florida.
My goal was to complete my teaching degree in the U.S.A.; however, life had other plans for me. I went back to the place I was born, and I started teaching at different schools as a substitute teacher since I got a paper that allowed me to when studying at HvA.
Click when you’re interested in hearing my speech during graduation.
Graduated, December 2016
Graduated, December 2016
Dutch Teaching Degree, October 2022
Received Montessori Degree, July 2023
I enjoyed my school career as a child, teenager and young adult. I’d learned many different skills and made a lot of knowledge my own. This probably impacted my wish to become a teacher. I’m currently teaching at the same school for the ninth school year in a row. I feel very knowledgeable about this field and I enjoy helping students make the teaching skills their own as a mentor.
My wish for the future is to provide those who are interested with even more shared knowledge about teaching and everything that this field deals with. This option will hopefully be available later on. (Stay tuned!)
I have created some videos about different teaching aspects. Make sure you check out the playlist below:
To Teach
Click to learn some of the wisdom nuggets I share.
I’ve also created some educational tools that you might find helpful. I’ve used Teachers Pay Teachers to share these tools with you. I offer many of these tools for free.
Personal Growth
Throughout the years I’ve been growing my knowledge professionally as well as personally. I’d taught myself from a young age to keep myself busy. The “hustle culture” of life (and social media) was quite a part of my life. However, my body whistled me back: I got a burn-out.
After sorting myself out slowly, but surely, I learned that I kind of had to experience the burn-out. I’m quite stubborn, and without it, I don’t think I’d learned the lessons I needed to learn. Although life is a learning process up until the end, I’ve gained the knowledge to slow down more. I also learned that, mentally, I had a lot to unpack and process. I’ve grown and practice mindfulness, see working out as moving my body which helps as the previous way I saw it was quite unhealthy.
I also learned more about how systems in the world work. Although I believe a lot of systems can be adjusted from the top down, I’ve grown my understanding that I can make an impact on my surroundings since every decision has a greater impact than what I could see with my own eyes.
Learning more about the food industry started when I lived in Florida. I started to learn more about the ways our foods get to us, and I started to dislike certain foods, like meat.
I love food. Food is amazing; it brings people together, it’s fun to cook and enjoy a meal together and it is fuel for our amazing bodies.
I never want to change someone else’s way of eating, but I could inspire someone with a delicious vegan dish.
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Learning about the way systems impact life worldwide has also inspired me to become a different consumer, not just in the way I eat vegan. I avoid fast-fashion and other unethical companies, and I enjoy secondhand shopping.