Author: Amanda Tanner

Why I stopped creating and how it made me sick

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Hey you, long time no talk! I may or may not have abandoned my passion for writing a little way past its bedtime. And, it may or may not have had an effect on me this past year. Please bear with me as I try to flush out so many thoughts that stayed stored away […]

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Teaching in Jordan: The Pre-Trip Struggle and How I Got Through It

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Saying “yes” to Jordan was easily the best decision I’ve ever made in the past 5 years of my life. I always told myself summers were made for travelling. I made a promise to myself that I would visit at least 2 different places on earth every summer; that those places would be my “summer […]

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Teaching in Jordan: Little videos of the journey there!

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Here’s a collection of short videos showing the travel journey starting from Chicago (the end of training) & onward! Yalla: Us pretending we were already in Jordan because of this beautiful mosaic of Petra that we found at the airport: (If you didn’t know what Petra was, it’s okay I didn’t either until I learned […]

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