Our next big adventure is to Australia! We’ll be going during Winter Break (which will be smack dab in the middle of summer there, which I’m excited about because I am way more a warm weather person than a cold weather one). We’ll be heading to an old coffee plantation that has been renovated into a home in the hinterlands of Byron Bay. Then we’ll be heading down to Brisbane. 

We are all so incredibly excited! 

I purchased some books to help us prepare for our adventure. 

• Australia and Oceana
• If You Were Me and Lived in Australia
• This Is Australia
• Australia ABCs
• Over in Australia
• National Geographic Readers: Koalas

So, yes, I had the opportunity to go to Bulgaria last week. I couldn’t believe it! Montessori For All was invited to present at the Teach For All international conference entitled, “Reimagining Learning.” It’s embarrassing to admit that I had to look up where Bulgaria was (it’s near Greece). 

We flew from Austin to Toronto to Munich to Sofia and then took a shuttle another two hours to Blagoevgrad. On the way back, we left Blagoevgrad at 2:15am and flew from Sofia to Frankfurt to Houston to Austin. Something I unintentionally realized about international travel: it helps so much to plan your flights to arrive in the evening so you