"Be willing to be a beginner every morning" -Meister Eckhart

Thank you to everyone who submitted questions for me! I've mixed it up in terms of content delivery this week and made a slide show with the answers to your questions. In honor of Creole Month, I've set it to some traditional Creole folk music (you can see the name of artist and song on 1st slide).

NOTE: Make sure to view in full screen mode. The timing is set at about 20 seconds/slide, so if you need more time to read, hit pause! 😆

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"This wasn't a strange place; it was a new one" -Paulo Coehlo

Thanks again to everyone who submitted questions. A couple notes about this video: 1) my voice is a bit scratchy and crackly because there was burning happening when I recorded and the smoke messes with my voice 2) In some of the slides, it sounds like a teapot is whistling--my apologies that was the fan getting picked up by my headphones (its not too loud, I promise) 3) In the slide following my intro, I state that the "ministry of health" was involved when I meant to say "ministry of education" (the error is actually quite obvious, lol)

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