New paths || April 2024

Hello there, welcome to this post! Jono and I completed 5 years together. Although we didn’t do much other than the appropriate dinner, snacking and putting together some activity books for memory keeping, it was such a big milestone and I did put together a little blog post to commemorate it:

This month, we also kissed Dinosaurs of Patagonia goodbye with a few fun events at Te Papa, including the Fiesta at Te Papa event, with the last round of school groups coming through the exhibition and the school holidays where I was able to take care of kids for more than an hour for the first time in my life. These experiences also lead me to decide to embark in new paths going forward in educational fields.

I decided to spend some time at home and try some new ideas career and income wise. Most of the month, I worked on becoming an Online Spanish Tutor. I started out on the platform “Preply”. I wrote a whole post about it if you’re interested.

It’s been such a long road to accepting the idea and possibility of giving myself licence to try and find some career that could be fulfilling for me other than Tourism as in many careers, there’s always that stigma of being a failure if you do anything other than what you’ve studied. To be fair, the link between education and tourism is very strong in my opinion and I’ve felt closer to sharing cultures through teaching my language and culture online than many other jobs I’ve done in the touristic field.

So this month, this year, I decided to give it a go and see where that takes me.

Aside from that, I got sick with the change of season and it took me a few weeks to get better. After almost recovering, Jono got sick for a week and I got sick for a second time after him. Fortunately, that’s all done and dusted although it prevented me from doing anything else other than the Tutoring for the month. I even had to tutor some classes with a sore throat but it went all well for the most part!

Lastly, I did have a sprinkle of fun with two modelling projects at the beginning and at the end of the month. Keep scrolling the post for those!

Becoming an Online Spanish Tutor

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Modelling Gigs

Sojourn Hotel Video Commercial

At the beginning of the month, I got a pleasant surprise of an old modelling friend who invited me for a quick video commercial gig for Sojourn Hotel. It was my first video modelling gig. I’m very used to photoshoots but not to video so this was new and very fun to try out. We were told it’d take a few months for the final product to be out in the world but I’ll make sure to share it when it does.

WoW Submission Photoshoot

A friend of mine, whom I met through my Paint vine work, decided to submit her work very last minute to the WoW World of Wearable Arts Show this year and I got to do some of the modelling for the submission portfolio. I haven’t modelled in a studio a whole lot in my life so this was a very fun and enriching experience!