this is wildlife unschooling with my mom
so some of you have been asking me to share like a travel diary or something like that so i will try
to do that um in the last couple of episodes i've been telling you guys about how unschooling
in Spain is not that easy anymore.
It's not like they come with the police and pick up your child to bring it to school.
But it's definitely not nice because you have to have like meetings with the social service
and you have to explain basically everything that you do at home.
They visit you at home and all these things.
that is okay but for me it is it's just time consuming and I'm always asking myself
they expect me to go there and tell them everything about my life and do they check
teachers that well as they check me I don't think so and I what I think is most ridiculous is do they
even think about all this time I spent with them I cannot work I cannot take care of my child and
I'm a single mom that doesn't make sense so in the beginning I was okay with that I mean it's
scary I was so scared but they were so friendly in the beginning and then the stuff changed and
then the tone changed so I changed because I couldn't be honest with them anymore about what
I'm doing and what I believe in so I never told them that I would unschool or anything like that
it was typical homeschooling following the curriculum and one day my child of course will
go to school yeah but as this this conversation changed I really felt the pressure to leave Spain
not only because of that but there on the Canary Islands a lot of things has been changing
A lot of military action and people are more and more, I don't know, let's wrap it up into one word, unfriendly.
I think this is just the reflection of the tension these people have to deal with on a daily basis.
And I do understand that life is pretty tough at the moment for most of us.
and less and less kids would align with my son's vision of i don't know how he would like to spend
his time with most of them he said are way too stupid or were like these typical npc kids even
if they're homeschooled or unschooled there wasn't like any kind of nice exchange anymore
it felt more like we were pretty much alone of course he had my friends and in the last couple
of months we were living in the middle of the forest right next to our best friends and that
is really really nice we were able to bond even deeper the whole family merged into one big family
but to be honest I felt every day like this is not life we spend so much time working or
playing computer games and I don't know where to go I mean if you live on an island for four or
five years there's not so much more to explore and we have two dogs and a cat so I don't know
and I'm not the person to pack up the car every weekend and go somewhere where it's crowded and
I don't know so I decided that didn't feel right anymore I mean I knew that I would miss the nature
so much that was one of the things that kept me there for so long and my son as well because we
really enjoyed this untouched nature where you can just walk and hike for hours and hours not
seeing anybody else but your little family or any I don't know like maybe a rabbit or a
or a dog or something like that so I really miss that wild nature and it really
yeah took me quite some time to be convinced to really leave that place for good and I know
myself when I leave I don't really look back and that's the good part of it because I knew I can
count on me regarding not feeling homesick or anything like that and I was pretty excited the
last couple of months when I knew okay I booked the boat and all these things I knew where we was
we were we were heading in what direction and these kind of things so that made me pretty excited
because before we settled down in the canary islands i mean we are originally from germany
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
in found friends and started living there then we had a cat then a dog then a huge dog
so it felt like okay we live there and more and more this place became like a yeah people
got really weird one day i think i will record an episode about these hippie dippie people
it's hilarious but anyway so we started with like having major problems with homeschooling in spain
and for me this pressure I don't know it's not healthy I cannot live like that for others it
might be okay but me single mom no I couldn't handle one bit more on my plate at all so one day
after one meeting I came back home and the meeting was was okay they are friendly but I came back
home and I just started crying and I normally don't cry a lot so my son knew that this is like
the end of the story and I was like I can't do it anymore I want to leave I want to leave
and he was like we can leave you just need to decide that we leave and I will follow
so it's like okay you're not mad at me if I rip you out of your environment that you
grew up in half your life and he was pretty cool he was like no it sucks in the beginning it was
really nice so many families and throughout the years it just changed into some kind of weird
shit show if you look behind the curtains of most families it's like you don't want to spend time
with them i don't want my kid to spend time with them i don't even want my kid to go there alone
by himself so he was okay with leaving and that gave me the space and of course relief as well
to plan our journey and I don't know I was very very courageous when I first had my child and
somehow I lost that courage over the years especially in the last maybe four years so it
was like a huge deal for me to plan to leave my home and my friends and everything that was really
really scary for me but I knew there's no other option so I I got through it and I need to say
yoga and meditation helped a lot that might sound like a cliche but it really helped um
so i felt like we have no life anymore it was just like enduring day for day the same boring shit with
no room to grow really um i mean we were surrounded by such beauty but i don't know the let's say it
like that the wipes were off so i prepared i guess one and a half years that sounds ridiculous but if
you're not ready to leave a place that's I think an okay amount of time so I really started with
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
wild and beautiful and I figured out if I want to take the pets and yeah they don't have passports
and all these things you know what i mean um it's quite hard and i wanted to take my car as well
because we have like a really cool car if shit is about to go down we can sleep in this car it is
yeah yeah really this is part of our family because this car really we had so many nice
camping adventures it's um yeah you can do off-road stuff with it and all these cool things
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
so I was like okay what are the options um I figured out I just start to travel from one island
to the next island and then I did my research about how the situation is on the different islands
because at some point I stopped traveling or visiting the other islands in the Canary Islands
because I felt like it's Babylon on an island.
It doesn't make sense.
Nature is gone.
They destroyed everything.
People are strange.
It's LGBTQ here and there and there.
And quality of life is quite low in most of the parts I've seen so far.
And with this migration crisis from what I've seen and heard from the other islands and people,
no way no way so I decided to really head just to our favorite island that was Lanzarote
and spend some time there until I feel ready to move on from there because once you start
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
spending 30 hours plus on a ferry boat and we took my son's best friend uh we invited him to
this vacation because I really felt like we were so close he's part of our family yeah he spent
more time with us in the last couple of years than with his actual family because uh I don't
know if this is okay to say but his family sucks I'm just gonna say well what I said that this
family sucks so this boy was like my additional our additional family member I would say so our
idea was to make it less hard to say goodbye we go on a last trip together and he's still with us
it has been weeks now um we didn't stop in Lanzarote he he followed us all the way and that was pretty
cool so we chose a remote village in the mountains like there's no real mountains but like a little
hill maybe in between this huge volcanoes and this desert right on the beach on our favorite
beach where we can just do whatever when nobody is and the dogs can run freely even the cat
came with us to our little hikes because what I really love about La Palma you can hike
my cat can follow us and there's no issue in this there's no i don't know crazy stuff happening no
cars no no nothing and in nanzarote the same we had we were really really lucky beach right in
front of our house we had a huge house everyone had a room for himself and my friend my kid's
friend he never had a room for himself really so he enjoyed that a lot and I had a room for myself
as well that was really really crazy so we enjoyed our time there I think we spent two or three weeks
and what we really did was eating Mexican food just to try out if we would be good candidates to
move to Mexico and we love Mexican food so I mean I knew I would love Mexican food but the kids
they never tried it so this was our mission to try mexican food as much as possible to go to
really extreme escape rooms to drain our brains for crazy situations to spend as much time on the
beach as possible um and to be in peace i introduced the kids to joe dispenser they did a really nice
course and discovered this magical power of meditation for themselves so they started
meditating that was pretty cool to see the results because kids are so open-minded and they're so
flexible still so they meditate and next thing is what's happening is what they wished for in
their meditation so that was really cool to see how they got into that and we started a course
that it's called multidimensional bitcoiner that is pretty cool as well we had like group sessions
and one group no one person coachings and that was really intense some really crazy meditations
and what i figured out is that the kids of course are way more open-minded and flexible than me
and they had way better results after one session than me and they really enjoyed it first i thought
like okay now i'm coming to that to them with this i don't know intergalactic bullshit but
no they were pretty happy to experience this and to yeah step into this and see what their strengths
are what they really i mean they have superpowers everyone has superpowers and i really think every
kid has superpowers and discovering these superpowers i really really enjoy seeing that
process. I love unschooling because you can just really follow your intuition and follow what is
in front of you. And if you have like some, if you have a friend that is creating these beautiful
coachings, then give it a go. It's just, I was completely, it changed my life. I can say that.
it changed my perception of life a lot and what we did as well was like a course for homeschooled
kids was called young entrepreneurs business for kids and that really opened up some gates for them
as well like just thinking about would I be open to run a business what does it mean to be employed
employee, all these things. And they came to the conclusion they never want to work for anybody
but themselves, what I think is quite smart and healthy. And they started really to look into
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
as an example like digital nomad working for herself and all these things but seeing them
looking into work life from that lens through this course really changed it
changed their perception i mean they gave up on the course after a couple of weeks because they
figured they don't need it but the beginning was really cool like um going into detail what they
might create for themselves and for this world for for their community for their surrounding
what they're really interested in what they do really believe in i think this is i mean some
schools might teach you that but um when I think back of my experience with these kind of courses
I mean I had one two-hour session with someone trying to figure out what I could do in life
like work-wise and of course this person was completely wrong um never went into that direction
because it's really close-minded and seeing that they don't have this close-minded approach to
life itself and how money is related to work is just incredible mind-blowing so i think these days
we spent in lanzaroto we just started to fall in love with life again because i really think i lost
that somehow a little bit the last couple of maybe two or three years and i got it back and i really
felt my adventure adventurous side coming back again so yeah I really enjoyed that
what else yeah I still think unschooling is more about unschooling de-schooling yourself than
really unschooling your kids because you don't have to do anything but let them live and support
whatever journey they're on and i think that's it for my first part of my spoken
my and i think that's it for the first part of this travel diary um next time i'm going to tell
you a bit more about what we did after lanzarota where we were heading i mean it's there's not so
much to choose from um and let's see i hope you like that and if you're interested in more please
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