CURRENT MISSION

I think I need to see the world and grow in my understanding of it in order to figure out my place in it...

ABOUT ME

The definition of “Joanna” is difficult to write on as it is such a dynamic topic. At any particular point, as I saunter down my life’s path, you can find me consulting a map, setting a course for the coming year and yet, without fail, a year later I will be looking back at the route I took, wondering why it’s so different than the one I had planned – but also thanking my lucky stars that it was!

I’m currently struggling to find a balance between really living for today, forgetting about tomorrow because I might not be around to see it, and joining the rat race with the good boys and girls.

I just finished my undergrad degree, which I entered directly from high school. It feels to me like the very first time in my own life that I’m the one who truly decides what comes next – and yet, when presented with a myriad of possibilities, I have: No. Idea. What I want. Or even, if you want to get philosophical about it, whether I should fritter away my God-given life on earth just doing what I want... Should I not be figuring out how to leverage that time and make the biggest possible difference in the lives of my neighbours? But I digress...

Intereses

I can't help but mentally compartmentalize my life. Currently, having finished one degree and on the verge of beginning a professional one, I'm in the "travel" compartment. I'm trying to see as much as possible in hopes that I'll learn as much as possible in hopes that I'll grow as much as possible. I sometimes feel stupid because I don't know what it is I'm looking for or what I hope to achieve by going places or doing things simply because "I feel like it," but I suspect maybe it's better this way... there can be no disappointment with whatever it is I might find and my mind is open to discovering things I might've missed if I'd traveled more "purposefully."

• traveling
• beaches

Música, películas y libros

My favourite movie EVER is “Love Actually.” If you haven’t seen it, do. Right now. It is a positively brilliant film, which explores the topic of love in its many forms. I really believe in the concept of “6 degrees of separation” so naturally, I adore how the character’s lives are so intertwined without them realizing it; an artful imitation of the inevitable interconnectedness of our own lives!

My favourite song when I was thirteen was “Drops of Jupiter” by Train. It still is. They just don’t play it on the radio anymore.

I decided a long time ago that I love FAR too many books to ever choose a favourite. It’s fortunate that I devoured bookshelves upon bookshelves full of them when I was younger because I haven’t really had enough time (or perhaps not enough discipline) to read anything but textbooks over the past four years. It’s ALMOST enough to make me wish I had done an English degree instead...

Algo increíble que he hecho

Competing only with the stars to watch sea turtles haul ass out of the sea to dig in the sand and lay eggs on a beach in rural Orissa, India. Oh, mother nature... Will you marry me?

Países que he visitado

Australia, Cambodia, China, Colombia, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

Países en los que he vivido

Canada, Nepal