Where is Eliana?

I had an utterly fantastic (fan-stab-stic?) time as an Associate Instructor at the A-Town Throwdown over this past Memorial Day weekend! Teaching falls through a gendered lens (very liberal artsy, I know) This was my third year on staff at this workshop, but my first time as an AI at any SAFD workshop. As an AI, I assisted a variety of classes over the long weekend and taught a class of my own under the supervision of a Certified Teacher, who also gave me detailed feedback. I was incredibly nervous about teaching in this capacity, but my class couldn't have gone any better, especially for a first attempt at teaching that material, and at a regional workshop no less. I received wonderful and encouraging feedback from students and my advisor which left me feeling incredibly encouraged considering how insecure I was going into the weekend.  I love when lunch with friends turns into a modern Renaissance painting My love and gratitude go out to everyone who listened to my anxieties and...

I'm Eliana, a native North Carolinian about to graduate from college in Pennsylvania. I've always been a travel aficionado thanks to parents that prioritized seeing the world from a very young age. At the time of my graduation (May 2024), I'll have visited 21 states (plus D.C.) and 15 countries. As I enter "the real world," my various passions and employment will continue taking me all over the world, and I'm so excited to share my adventures with my friends, family, and friends that are family, back home.   I plan to use this blog to share my daily adventures on the road, in the air, and on the seven seas. I'll be sharing pictures and stories to document the glamorous, the not so glamorous, the exciting, and the mundane. I'll be keeping track of the places I visit and the people I meet, and the fun foods I find to enjoy. Please enjoy this 2008 photo of my brother and me about to set sail on Royal Caribbean's Grandeur of the Seas, and I'm so ex...