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...
by Kayla Norris | Dec 18, 2021 | Kids & Teaching, Loving Jesus, The Creative Heart
Some days I don’t even put out the paint. The kids in my classroom range from the stick-everything-in-their-mouth stage, to full conversations about dinosaur underwear (in other words, 1.5-3ish years old). But whatever stage they’re in, paint always makes a...
