Today is my birthday. I didn’t know what to write for today’s post. Other than my recent illness and the crisis of faith that came with it, the three weeks of quarantine were quiet and uneventful. Nothing new presented itself to me to share, neither new adventures nor new lessons. The week since quarantine ended has been …
It seems as if every time there’s a quarantine in Yakutsk, I end up in a personal crisis. Last year, it was an existential crisis. This year, I ended up mad at God for a few days. On Tuesday, January 22, 2019 a quarantine was declared in Yakutsk, schedule to begin the next day. Although …
I knew it was coming. I knew it! Didn’t I say last time this happened that it was going to happen again? And didn’t I hope that I’d be ready for it this time? And I found myself not at all ready. Again! At this point, I’m wondering if I can ever truly be ready. …
So, how did your new year start? I hope you started 2019 in the way you intend to continue. And if you didn’t, we’re only a few days in so it’s not too late for you to turn that around. Meanwhile, I’ve got quite a bit to tell you about the start to my own …
Happy New Year! I hope 2019 has started amazingly and I pray that this will be a year of big dreams and big accomplishments for you. I’m aiming for the same, myself, and thankfully I’m off to a good start. I’ll tell you all about how my year began very soon. Today, I need your …
I believe that a vacation is a time for rejuvenation. It’s a time to rest my body and my mind, to recover from the demands of my regular life. It’s a time when I step away from my normal responsibilities and allow myself to breathe. During my last vacation, I covered everything I needed to …
Before I left Yakutsk for my summer vacation, I was offered a promotion at school. I was asked to take on the position of head teacher for children, and I accepted the offer. Actually, the person who recommended me for the position had told me about her recommendation several weeks before the offer was officially …
On the very first day of September, I boarded a flight from Kingston, Jamaica heading back to Yakutsk. Two days later, after three flights and a long layover in Moscow during which I did nothing significant, I finally arrived back in Yakutsk to a wonderful welcome from my colleagues and from the weather. Before I …
I love living in a place where my skin colour doesn’t matter and, in fact, is a source of fascination. People stare at me quite a bit when I’m out and about but they’re almost always respectful. The rare idiot pops up from time to time but most people are welcoming and are obviously just …
OK! So you’re finally caught up on how I spent the month of July. Let’s do August, but we’ll do it all in one post. One major thing to know is that during August, I circumnavigated the globe within one year yet again! And yet again, it was one hundred percent unintentional. The reason why it …
