Meet Jennifer: Zimbabwean ballet teacher

Meet the Expats

English - July 13, 2022 05:30 - 29 minutes - 26.8 MB
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Meet Jennifer,

Zimbabwean, who to pursue her dance dreams left home at 17, and moved to the UK to study ballet and then travelled across the pond to find her new new home in Canada.

In this episode she shares

her motivations to move and travel through dance
as well as how writing became a form of expression and of grief for the zimbabwean life she left
some insights from her poems All forgotten now

As for recommendations in Calgary, Canada:

🍹Betty Lou's Library for some litterary cocktails

🍕Avatara fro so me vegan pizza

📚Calgary Central Library for a visit

🎤 Her expat song take you to the wild with Scatterlings of Africa by Johnny Clegg

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