Welcome!

Hello everyone!

This is my first blog!! I’ve always wanted to start one, but never had a reason to. Well, now I have the perfect reason because I am STUDENT TEACHING IN NEW ZEALAND!!!!! I will be there from January 24-March 4, 2019. I am SO PUMPED!

I am in my senior year studying elementary education at the University of Minnesota Morris. They are the reason I have this AMAZING opportunity surrounding my degree. If you’re considering education, and want to go to school in Minnesota, you should seriously check them out.

If I’m being honest, a big part of my motivation for this blog is for me, myself, and I to remember this experience. In ten years, when the memories of my New Zealand are getting fuzzy, how convenient will it be to look back at this blog and reminisce? I also thought this blog would be a good way for my friends and family to follow my adventures and see what I’m up to while I’m half a world away…. That being said, I hope this blog will entertain, inspire, connect, excite, and captivate anyone who stumbles upon its pages – whether I know them personally or not.

And with that I invite you (yes, YOU), to read this blog and embark on this adventure with me. Feel free to laugh with me, cry with me, live vicariously through me, learn from my mistakes, celebrate my successes, and enjoy this crazy thing called life.

 Thanks for stopping by and best wishes to you in your own life journey,

 – Ellie Rii