Finally traveling again!

My name is Juliana, and I’m from Newtown, CT, in the United States. There isn’t much to say about my hometown. It’s a small, suburban town, usually covered in either autumn leaves or pollen depending on the season.

It’s tiny, and there isn’t much to do, so naturally after high school I took whatever money I had saved up and left for India to teach English.

My next stop was Thailand, where I worked on a wildlife reservation caring for rescued elephants. In order to feed and enrich their lives, I spent my mornings shoving fruit into tires and making banana-log sandwiches for them to tear apart.

After Thailand, I went to Bali in Indonesia, to teach English once again to a classroom full some of the most adorable children in the world, and a puppy who somehow snuck into the lessons named Mantabi.

From there, I ended up in Hanoi, Vietnam, which was at the time my favorite destination. I was teaching again, to preschoolers in the middle of the city. My days were full of energetic children trying to climb me, and my nights were spent exploring the Old Quarter and meeting people in the narrow streets lined with restaurants and bars.

After my time in Vietnam was up, I still had some money left over, and all the time in the world (or so I thought) so I took a trip to Australia to drive the Great Ocean Road and sightsee.

I left Australia in February, and I was lucky I left when I did, because a week later, COVID-19 hit the states, and I was stuck in my tiny town for another year.

Get ready Warsaw, I’m fully vaccinated and ready to explore again!