After a long eight-hour bus journey from Leon, we finally arrived in Monterrey on Sunday evening. My first thought of Monterrey was that it was a very mountainous place as the city was in the centre of very large mountains, as you will see in the pic below. My first impression of the Tec de…Continue Reading Final Week in Monterrey
Hand Sanitiser Snacks Tissues Converter/ Adapter Mosquito Repellent (DEET) Jandles/ Sandles /Slides Portable Charger Headphones …Continue Reading Holly’s Packing Guide for India
When you find family outside of your bloodline, your heart sends extensions and messages to new places within yourself that are complicated designs of nature. When things are complicated, they tend to be h a r d to describe. I’m having difficulty writing this. To describe love devotes itself to more than just words. It’s…Continue Reading Comforting Cocoon
Getting to Europe… well that’s another thing but oh the experiences you have when you’re here! I’m spending my semester abroad at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Utrecht is the perfect student town and here’s why: This block I have the standard two courses, however, I’m excited about the next block when I will have…Continue Reading A Taste of Utrecht
** TRIGGER WARNING: this podcast discusses violent topics (including acid attacks and sexual violence). Welcome back to another episode 🙂 Today I’m joined by Holly Stokes and Taryn Farr to share some trip highlights and then discuss our experience visiting the Sheroes Cafe in Agra (the only cafe in the world run by acid attack…Continue Reading She Heroes – Ep 9. Tea with Tia (ft Holly and Taryn)
Visiting the indigenous communities and bearing witness to the resistance against continued colonisation has been oxygen to the fire in my puku (belly) and also extremely heavy. It has been unsettling and also a time of celebration of how the indigenous hold space and will not be moved by the pressure from modern-day colonisation. I…Continue Reading Privilege Check
Welcome back to my blog!! This might be my last blog post because it is slowly nearing when we have to leave Korea, which means lots and lots of packing and tidying things up! Many fun things have been happening, and I’ve been trying to cram everything in now that the time to leave the…Continue Reading Not Ready To Leave 🙁
Today I want to share one of my struggles with Bangkok in an effort to paint you an entire picture of my life here in this beautiful city. I also share it in hopes that if someone with neurodiversity wanted to do a PMSA programme, they would know that it IS possible with the right…Continue Reading Neurodivergence in a busy city
I have now been back in our beautiful Aotearoa for a few weeks and have finally been able to wrap my head around my thoughts to write this final reflection. Coming back was not as much of a culture shock as I expected. It was almost as if I had never left. I was lucky…Continue Reading Some final takeaways
Hello, and welcome to my final blog! The last time we left off, I had managed to visit the dentist in 台湾。 That is no easy feat. Afterwards, we were lucky enough to be able to visit an Indigenous Elementary School in the mountains. This was an amazing experience, where we were able to teach them about…Continue Reading Visiting 台北 and return to 纽西兰