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This is the blog I was actually going to write when I started about June 7<\/strong><\/a>! You all know that I have done some very exciting stuff lately, with my trip to Athens and my speeches there, but you should know that there is another thing in my life that I am as passionate about as I am about Tourette: education.<\/p>\n

Hopefully, in May 2014 I will graduate and be an elementary school teacher (kindergarten and 1st-6th grade). But I\u2019ve always wanted to go to Africa and help with the education there, as I believe education is where it all starts and how problems can be solved. It\u2019s also what we do with TS awareness: educating the public about what TS really is.<\/p>\n

So I really want to go to Africa to teach and to motivate children (and their parents) to go to school and to get a good job. And that\u2019s exactly what I\u2019m going to do! This Sunday, July 7, I\u2019ll leave for Uganda for two weeks to teach and to work with local students who want to become teachers, just like me.<\/p>\n

A couple of months ago someone told me that she was really impressed that I was going on this trip while having Tourette. I thought about that for I while and then I figured: Why wouldn\u2019t I do it? It\u2019s something I really want and, yes, it might be a bit harder for me, but what in life isn\u2019t?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s going to be exhausting for everyone, and it\u2019s going to be maybe three times as exhausting for me (with all the new impressions and such), but I\u2019ll just sleep three times as long afterward! I\u2019ve told everyone in my group about TS and what it means to me and that I need rest and some alone time and what they can do for me, so there\u2019s really no reason not to go! I\u2019m going to Africa and I\u2019m going to teach!<\/p>\n

I wanted to share this with you, because I really think that you can do everything you want, while having Tourette, you just have to find your own way to do it. If I hadn\u2019t had TS, maybe I would\u2019ve gone longer, but the only thing that matters is that I\u2019m going, and I\u2019m going on my own terms and in my own way!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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