From the outside, I have lived a fairly traditional Scandinavian life. I first gained a BA and then completed a Master's in Educational Psychology at one of the world's leading universities in the field. But alongside that education, another one was taking place. Since I was 17, I have travelled, studied and lived across cultures, learning that none of us exists outside the stories of other people. We learn from one another. We carry pieces of the places we have lived and the people who have welcomed us. And sometimes, when we lose our own voice, the stories of another culture can help us find it again. Who I am today, and much of what I teach, has been shaped by friendships across the world, by classrooms in different countries, and by the homes that welcomed me in with extraordinary generosity. Later, I took the greatest geographical leap of all and moved permanently to Australia. In many ways, this is where my story began.