1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,220 this is wildlife unschooling with my mom 2 00:00:05,220 --> 00:00:18,180 so some of you have been asking me to share like a travel diary or something like that so i will try 3 00:00:18,180 --> 00:00:24,960 to do that um in the last couple of episodes i've been telling you guys about how unschooling 4 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:27,080 in Spain is not that easy anymore. 5 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:33,580 It's not like they come with the police and pick up your child to bring it to school. 6 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:42,420 But it's definitely not nice because you have to have like meetings with the social service 7 00:00:42,420 --> 00:00:48,420 and you have to explain basically everything that you do at home. 8 00:00:48,540 --> 00:00:50,520 They visit you at home and all these things. 9 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:59,020 that is okay but for me it is it's just time consuming and I'm always asking myself 10 00:00:59,020 --> 00:01:06,640 they expect me to go there and tell them everything about my life and do they check 11 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:14,460 teachers that well as they check me I don't think so and I what I think is most ridiculous is do they 12 00:01:14,460 --> 00:01:22,860 even think about all this time I spent with them I cannot work I cannot take care of my child and 13 00:01:22,860 --> 00:01:31,000 I'm a single mom that doesn't make sense so in the beginning I was okay with that I mean it's 14 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:37,060 scary I was so scared but they were so friendly in the beginning and then the stuff changed and 15 00:01:37,060 --> 00:01:42,900 then the tone changed so I changed because I couldn't be honest with them anymore about what 16 00:01:42,900 --> 00:01:48,600 I'm doing and what I believe in so I never told them that I would unschool or anything like that 17 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:55,400 it was typical homeschooling following the curriculum and one day my child of course will 18 00:01:55,400 --> 00:02:05,240 go to school yeah but as this this conversation changed I really felt the pressure to leave Spain 19 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:12,820 not only because of that but there on the Canary Islands a lot of things has been changing 20 00:02:12,820 --> 00:02:25,780 A lot of military action and people are more and more, I don't know, let's wrap it up into one word, unfriendly. 21 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:32,800 I think this is just the reflection of the tension these people have to deal with on a daily basis. 22 00:02:32,920 --> 00:02:37,620 And I do understand that life is pretty tough at the moment for most of us. 23 00:02:37,620 --> 00:02:47,580 and less and less kids would align with my son's vision of i don't know how he would like to spend 24 00:02:47,580 --> 00:02:55,320 his time with most of them he said are way too stupid or were like these typical npc kids even 25 00:02:55,320 --> 00:03:03,860 if they're homeschooled or unschooled there wasn't like any kind of nice exchange anymore 26 00:03:03,860 --> 00:03:11,940 it felt more like we were pretty much alone of course he had my friends and in the last couple 27 00:03:11,940 --> 00:03:17,940 of months we were living in the middle of the forest right next to our best friends and that 28 00:03:17,940 --> 00:03:26,320 is really really nice we were able to bond even deeper the whole family merged into one big family 29 00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:34,620 but to be honest I felt every day like this is not life we spend so much time working or 30 00:03:34,620 --> 00:03:42,540 playing computer games and I don't know where to go I mean if you live on an island for four or 31 00:03:42,540 --> 00:03:51,640 five years there's not so much more to explore and we have two dogs and a cat so I don't know 32 00:03:51,640 --> 00:03:57,620 and I'm not the person to pack up the car every weekend and go somewhere where it's crowded and 33 00:03:57,620 --> 00:04:06,100 I don't know so I decided that didn't feel right anymore I mean I knew that I would miss the nature 34 00:04:06,100 --> 00:04:13,080 so much that was one of the things that kept me there for so long and my son as well because we 35 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:19,840 really enjoyed this untouched nature where you can just walk and hike for hours and hours not 36 00:04:19,840 --> 00:04:27,360 seeing anybody else but your little family or any I don't know like maybe a rabbit or a 37 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:35,060 or a dog or something like that so I really miss that wild nature and it really 38 00:04:35,060 --> 00:04:44,180 yeah took me quite some time to be convinced to really leave that place for good and I know 39 00:04:44,180 --> 00:04:50,940 myself when I leave I don't really look back and that's the good part of it because I knew I can 40 00:04:50,940 --> 00:04:58,420 count on me regarding not feeling homesick or anything like that and I was pretty excited the 41 00:04:58,420 --> 00:05:05,280 last couple of months when I knew okay I booked the boat and all these things I knew where we was 42 00:05:05,280 --> 00:05:11,000 we were we were heading in what direction and these kind of things so that made me pretty excited 43 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:16,800 because before we settled down in the canary islands i mean we are originally from germany 44 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:40,558 we traveled quite some some time and i really enjoyed that because i think all this movement really makes something move inside yourself so i really appreciated that a lot and through all these lockdowns and shit shows I decided to stay put and then we somehow settled 45 00:05:40,558 --> 00:05:47,958 in found friends and started living there then we had a cat then a dog then a huge dog 46 00:05:47,958 --> 00:05:56,058 so it felt like okay we live there and more and more this place became like a yeah people 47 00:05:56,058 --> 00:06:03,878 got really weird one day i think i will record an episode about these hippie dippie people 48 00:06:03,878 --> 00:06:13,478 it's hilarious but anyway so we started with like having major problems with homeschooling in spain 49 00:06:13,478 --> 00:06:19,678 and for me this pressure I don't know it's not healthy I cannot live like that for others it 50 00:06:19,678 --> 00:06:29,498 might be okay but me single mom no I couldn't handle one bit more on my plate at all so one day 51 00:06:29,498 --> 00:06:35,198 after one meeting I came back home and the meeting was was okay they are friendly but I came back 52 00:06:35,198 --> 00:06:43,538 home and I just started crying and I normally don't cry a lot so my son knew that this is like 53 00:06:43,538 --> 00:06:47,658 the end of the story and I was like I can't do it anymore I want to leave I want to leave 54 00:06:47,658 --> 00:06:52,438 and he was like we can leave you just need to decide that we leave and I will follow 55 00:06:52,438 --> 00:06:59,018 so it's like okay you're not mad at me if I rip you out of your environment that you 56 00:06:59,018 --> 00:07:06,058 grew up in half your life and he was pretty cool he was like no it sucks in the beginning it was 57 00:07:06,058 --> 00:07:12,938 really nice so many families and throughout the years it just changed into some kind of weird 58 00:07:12,938 --> 00:07:18,398 shit show if you look behind the curtains of most families it's like you don't want to spend time 59 00:07:18,398 --> 00:07:22,858 with them i don't want my kid to spend time with them i don't even want my kid to go there alone 60 00:07:22,858 --> 00:07:30,938 by himself so he was okay with leaving and that gave me the space and of course relief as well 61 00:07:30,938 --> 00:07:41,278 to plan our journey and I don't know I was very very courageous when I first had my child and 62 00:07:41,278 --> 00:07:47,738 somehow I lost that courage over the years especially in the last maybe four years so it 63 00:07:47,738 --> 00:07:56,558 was like a huge deal for me to plan to leave my home and my friends and everything that was really 64 00:07:56,558 --> 00:08:03,718 really scary for me but I knew there's no other option so I I got through it and I need to say 65 00:08:03,718 --> 00:08:11,418 yoga and meditation helped a lot that might sound like a cliche but it really helped um 66 00:08:11,418 --> 00:08:21,558 so i felt like we have no life anymore it was just like enduring day for day the same boring shit with 67 00:08:21,558 --> 00:08:34,118 no room to grow really um i mean we were surrounded by such beauty but i don't know the let's say it 68 00:08:34,118 --> 00:08:41,178 like that the wipes were off so i prepared i guess one and a half years that sounds ridiculous but if 69 00:08:41,178 --> 00:08:50,138 you're not ready to leave a place that's I think an okay amount of time so I really started with 70 00:08:50,138 --> 00:08:57,198 where do I want to go and I knew I don't want to go anywhere so I just want to go where it's equally 71 00:08:57,198 --> 00:09:05,298 wild and beautiful and I figured out if I want to take the pets and yeah they don't have passports 72 00:09:05,298 --> 00:09:13,438 and all these things you know what i mean um it's quite hard and i wanted to take my car as well 73 00:09:13,438 --> 00:09:20,118 because we have like a really cool car if shit is about to go down we can sleep in this car it is 74 00:09:20,118 --> 00:09:28,758 yeah yeah really this is part of our family because this car really we had so many nice 75 00:09:28,758 --> 00:09:35,418 camping adventures it's um yeah you can do off-road stuff with it and all these cool things 76 00:09:35,418 --> 00:09:41,378 so I figured out it's much easier for me to travel with a kid a cat and two dogs if I take the car 77 00:09:41,378 --> 00:09:50,278 so I was like okay what are the options um I figured out I just start to travel from one island 78 00:09:50,278 --> 00:09:56,638 to the next island and then I did my research about how the situation is on the different islands 79 00:09:56,638 --> 00:10:01,978 because at some point I stopped traveling or visiting the other islands in the Canary Islands 80 00:10:01,978 --> 00:10:06,378 because I felt like it's Babylon on an island. 81 00:10:06,658 --> 00:10:07,418 It doesn't make sense. 82 00:10:07,538 --> 00:10:08,258 Nature is gone. 83 00:10:08,358 --> 00:10:09,398 They destroyed everything. 84 00:10:10,178 --> 00:10:11,158 People are strange. 85 00:10:11,298 --> 00:10:13,118 It's LGBTQ here and there and there. 86 00:10:13,118 --> 00:10:19,858 And quality of life is quite low in most of the parts I've seen so far. 87 00:10:20,738 --> 00:10:26,298 And with this migration crisis from what I've seen and heard from the other islands and people, 88 00:10:26,298 --> 00:10:36,958 no way no way so I decided to really head just to our favorite island that was Lanzarote 89 00:10:36,958 --> 00:10:44,698 and spend some time there until I feel ready to move on from there because once you start 90 00:10:44,698 --> 00:11:09,416 traveling for at least for me it much easier to just go on because I knew I couldn go back I had to go on So as I talking to you now I not in Lanzarote anymore but I will keep you updated in this diary like step by step um yeah so traveling to Lanzarote meant 91 00:11:09,416 --> 00:11:18,296 spending 30 hours plus on a ferry boat and we took my son's best friend uh we invited him to 92 00:11:18,296 --> 00:11:24,816 this vacation because I really felt like we were so close he's part of our family yeah he spent 93 00:11:24,816 --> 00:11:30,936 more time with us in the last couple of years than with his actual family because uh I don't 94 00:11:30,936 --> 00:11:37,296 know if this is okay to say but his family sucks I'm just gonna say well what I said that this 95 00:11:37,296 --> 00:11:46,636 family sucks so this boy was like my additional our additional family member I would say so our 96 00:11:46,636 --> 00:11:53,456 idea was to make it less hard to say goodbye we go on a last trip together and he's still with us 97 00:11:53,456 --> 00:12:01,536 it has been weeks now um we didn't stop in Lanzarote he he followed us all the way and that was pretty 98 00:12:01,536 --> 00:12:08,556 cool so we chose a remote village in the mountains like there's no real mountains but like a little 99 00:12:08,556 --> 00:12:16,896 hill maybe in between this huge volcanoes and this desert right on the beach on our favorite 100 00:12:16,896 --> 00:12:22,896 beach where we can just do whatever when nobody is and the dogs can run freely even the cat 101 00:12:22,896 --> 00:12:28,676 came with us to our little hikes because what I really love about La Palma you can hike 102 00:12:28,676 --> 00:12:39,256 my cat can follow us and there's no issue in this there's no i don't know crazy stuff happening no 103 00:12:39,256 --> 00:12:46,396 cars no no nothing and in nanzarote the same we had we were really really lucky beach right in 104 00:12:46,396 --> 00:12:53,656 front of our house we had a huge house everyone had a room for himself and my friend my kid's 105 00:12:53,656 --> 00:12:59,896 friend he never had a room for himself really so he enjoyed that a lot and I had a room for myself 106 00:12:59,896 --> 00:13:06,636 as well that was really really crazy so we enjoyed our time there I think we spent two or three weeks 107 00:13:06,636 --> 00:13:16,596 and what we really did was eating Mexican food just to try out if we would be good candidates to 108 00:13:16,596 --> 00:13:23,336 move to Mexico and we love Mexican food so I mean I knew I would love Mexican food but the kids 109 00:13:23,336 --> 00:13:29,256 they never tried it so this was our mission to try mexican food as much as possible to go to 110 00:13:29,256 --> 00:13:38,576 really extreme escape rooms to drain our brains for crazy situations to spend as much time on the 111 00:13:38,576 --> 00:13:48,736 beach as possible um and to be in peace i introduced the kids to joe dispenser they did a really nice 112 00:13:48,736 --> 00:13:54,376 course and discovered this magical power of meditation for themselves so they started 113 00:13:54,376 --> 00:14:02,076 meditating that was pretty cool to see the results because kids are so open-minded and they're so 114 00:14:02,076 --> 00:14:07,376 flexible still so they meditate and next thing is what's happening is what they wished for in 115 00:14:07,376 --> 00:14:16,416 their meditation so that was really cool to see how they got into that and we started a course 116 00:14:16,416 --> 00:14:23,796 that it's called multidimensional bitcoiner that is pretty cool as well we had like group sessions 117 00:14:23,796 --> 00:14:33,196 and one group no one person coachings and that was really intense some really crazy meditations 118 00:14:33,196 --> 00:14:39,616 and what i figured out is that the kids of course are way more open-minded and flexible than me 119 00:14:39,616 --> 00:14:46,236 and they had way better results after one session than me and they really enjoyed it first i thought 120 00:14:46,236 --> 00:14:53,156 like okay now i'm coming to that to them with this i don't know intergalactic bullshit but 121 00:14:53,156 --> 00:15:03,256 no they were pretty happy to experience this and to yeah step into this and see what their strengths 122 00:15:03,256 --> 00:15:09,516 are what they really i mean they have superpowers everyone has superpowers and i really think every 123 00:15:09,516 --> 00:15:15,616 kid has superpowers and discovering these superpowers i really really enjoy seeing that 124 00:15:15,616 --> 00:15:22,816 process. I love unschooling because you can just really follow your intuition and follow what is 125 00:15:22,816 --> 00:15:28,516 in front of you. And if you have like some, if you have a friend that is creating these beautiful 126 00:15:28,516 --> 00:15:39,156 coachings, then give it a go. It's just, I was completely, it changed my life. I can say that. 127 00:15:39,156 --> 00:15:47,876 it changed my perception of life a lot and what we did as well was like a course for homeschooled 128 00:15:47,876 --> 00:15:55,256 kids was called young entrepreneurs business for kids and that really opened up some gates for them 129 00:15:55,256 --> 00:16:04,036 as well like just thinking about would I be open to run a business what does it mean to be employed 130 00:16:04,036 --> 00:16:10,576 employee, all these things. And they came to the conclusion they never want to work for anybody 131 00:16:10,576 --> 00:16:16,816 but themselves, what I think is quite smart and healthy. And they started really to look into 132 00:16:16,816 --> 00:16:30,554 themselves what are their strengths and what they want to create and how they look at life business work and all these things of course i they have me 133 00:16:30,554 --> 00:16:37,854 as an example like digital nomad working for herself and all these things but seeing them 134 00:16:37,854 --> 00:16:44,534 looking into work life from that lens through this course really changed it 135 00:16:44,534 --> 00:16:51,134 changed their perception i mean they gave up on the course after a couple of weeks because they 136 00:16:51,134 --> 00:17:00,054 figured they don't need it but the beginning was really cool like um going into detail what they 137 00:17:00,054 --> 00:17:05,314 might create for themselves and for this world for for their community for their surrounding 138 00:17:05,314 --> 00:17:12,134 what they're really interested in what they do really believe in i think this is i mean some 139 00:17:12,134 --> 00:17:18,814 schools might teach you that but um when I think back of my experience with these kind of courses 140 00:17:18,814 --> 00:17:25,934 I mean I had one two-hour session with someone trying to figure out what I could do in life 141 00:17:25,934 --> 00:17:32,714 like work-wise and of course this person was completely wrong um never went into that direction 142 00:17:32,714 --> 00:17:39,674 because it's really close-minded and seeing that they don't have this close-minded approach to 143 00:17:39,674 --> 00:17:48,794 life itself and how money is related to work is just incredible mind-blowing so i think these days 144 00:17:48,794 --> 00:17:56,974 we spent in lanzaroto we just started to fall in love with life again because i really think i lost 145 00:17:56,974 --> 00:18:03,774 that somehow a little bit the last couple of maybe two or three years and i got it back and i really 146 00:18:03,774 --> 00:18:12,274 felt my adventure adventurous side coming back again so yeah I really enjoyed that 147 00:18:12,274 --> 00:18:20,574 what else yeah I still think unschooling is more about unschooling de-schooling yourself than 148 00:18:20,574 --> 00:18:26,174 really unschooling your kids because you don't have to do anything but let them live and support 149 00:18:26,174 --> 00:18:33,374 whatever journey they're on and i think that's it for my first part of my spoken 150 00:18:33,374 --> 00:18:44,154 my and i think that's it for the first part of this travel diary um next time i'm going to tell 151 00:18:44,154 --> 00:18:51,374 you a bit more about what we did after lanzarota where we were heading i mean it's there's not so 152 00:18:51,374 --> 00:18:59,414 much to choose from um and let's see i hope you like that and if you're interested in more please 153 00:18:59,414 --> 00:19:08,394 comment i will start to be active on linkedin and nostr again so i will try to i think i have a link 154 00:19:08,394 --> 00:19:13,914 in this podcast description there you find a link to my linkedin and a link to my nostr 155 00:19:13,914 --> 00:19:22,634 I don't even know if sharing my stuff on LinkedIn makes any sense, but I was just sick of Instagram, 156 00:19:22,894 --> 00:19:31,674 Twitter, and all these things, and I thought LinkedIn is the less disgusting. 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