In this episode, I yarn with Kristine Willems.

Kristine is a diploma trained educator that has been working in early childhood for 32 years. Kristine usually works at a sessional kindergarten for Wyndham city council. However, she left her family and fur babies behind this year to move to the northern territory to teach in a remote community. So, if ever you have been curious about what that change would be like, then this is the podcast for you.

In this episode we will discuss:

• Kristine's background and how she came to work in the Northern Territory.
• What long daycare in the Northern Territory looks like and how it differs from metropolitan centres.
• Aboriginal languages and Jess's personal experience hearing indigenous elders who did not speak English.
• How flexibility is key to Kristine's role.
• Adapting to being able to learn in a physical way.
• Working with the local community.
• How Kristine navigates negative feedback or criticism when people think her presence is to 'save the children' (which she outlines is the opposite of why she is there).
• The importance of body language
• The value of kinship in community
• And much, much more!