by Kayla Norris | Aug 11, 2022 | International Travel, Loving Jesus, Prayer & Worship
We sing a lot. I show up to an increasingly crowded room full of people I kind-of know, and we sing songs. Sometimes they’re songs about God’s holiness, sometimes we rant about how much we love him, sometimes he belts out how much he likes us, which is...
by Kayla Norris | May 30, 2022 | International Travel
This will not be a guide, in your traditional sense. It can’t be, because there’s a hyphen in my nationality. Reverse culture shock, by definition: the collision of feelings (i.e. surprise, disorientation, confusion) experienced when a person returns to their home...
by Kayla Norris | Mar 21, 2022 | International Travel
Dear International Travel, Two years ago, the world shut down and I wrote a letter to you. I didn’t know when I’d see you again—I thought maybe two months, max. But somehow, I knew it could be longer. Much longer. I mean, I could leave if I wanted to. New Zealand was...
by Kayla Norris | Mar 20, 2022 | University
I never planned on college. Even though I did well in school, I was raised in a community where it was way more normal to move to distant countries to tell people about Jesus. Why spend thousands of dollars on a degree you may never use? I was pretty humbled when I...
by Kayla Norris | Dec 31, 2021 | The Creative Heart
It started as a coping mechanism. I was in charge of multiple international young adults and couldn’t turn my brain off. So I picked up 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and took a deep dive into the colourful world of Jules Verne. Then I slept. Four years on, I still...
