My Best Bilingual Life

Finally, with my 4-Step Guide to Living Your Best Bilingual Life, I found a way to happily marry my two lines of work and offer it to new students: a way to reach your language goals, and how to apply the work on a deeper, whole-life level.

Then, two days after I sent the last step of the guide out to the NBLC eCommunity, disaster struck: lightning and thunder storms lit up California in the midst of a record August heat-wave and sparked myriad fires across the state.

On top of the coronavirus pandemic, ongoing calls for racial justice and reform, and an emotional presidential election, 2020 had brought us devastating wildfires, evacuations, and power outages, months ahead of “schedule.”

Around me, I heard people say, “Nothing can surprise me anymore.” A friend told me she was ready to drive 20+ hours across multiple state lines just to get away from what she saw as “the cherry on top, but in a bad way.”

I realized the evolution needed to continue, because how can we talk about living your ‘best bilingual life’ in the midst of the sh*tstorm that is 2020?!

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