Full Transcript for Episode 45: How Do You Find Worldschooling Communities?

groups all around the world. 27 00:02:46,712 --> 00:02:53,156 Yeah, I mean, so there are like some small world schooling Facebook groups, but what are some of the major ones? 28 00:02:53,336 --> 00:02:59,420 And when I say major, I feel like it's like at least thousands of members. 29 00:02:59,780 --> 00:03:03,423 I think the biggest one or one of the biggest ones is Project World School. 30 00:03:04,003 --> 00:03:10,867 I think that one has, last I checked, something like 13,000 members or maybe even more than that. 31 00:03:11,368 --> 00:03:14,210 It's got probably one of the most active 32 00:03:15,230 --> 00:03:16,532 conversations going on. 33 00:03:17,393 --> 00:03:27,163 That one's great because there's so many people posting about how I mean, honestly, it's like kind of what we're talking about in this podcast, like, how do I get started world scoring? 34 00:03:27,243 --> 00:03:28,164 Or do you do for work? 35 00:03:28,204 --> 00:03:30,006 And there's so many questions that come out of that. 36 00:03:30,539 --> 00:03:35,663 That one's created by Lainey Liberty and she's been world-schooling. 37 00:03:35,784 --> 00:03:39,046 She's also another one of those OG world-schooling parents. 38 00:03:39,066 --> 00:03:40,808 Yeah, for sure. 39 00:03:41,208 --> 00:03:47,754 I think another big one is World-Schooling Central created by or run by Karen King. 40 00:03:48,935 --> 00:03:57,342 That's a good resource for world-schoolers just wanting to get started and finding a community. 41 00:03:57,691 --> 00:04:02,153 Yeah, we don't mention it on here, but there's a bunch of like world school pop-up ones. 42 00:04:02,173 --> 00:04:03,754 There's like world school pop-up Bali. 43 00:04:04,535 --> 00:04:05,375 There's things like that. 44 00:04:06,356 --> 00:04:07,756 Those are great ones. 45 00:04:08,236 --> 00:04:11,438 You have listed here, We Are World Scores is another one. 46 00:04:11,678 --> 00:04:12,879 What about a couple more? 47 00:04:13,859 --> 00:04:19,542 Another one, and this is run by a woman that's a friend of ours, is Trailblazing Families. 48 00:04:19,722 --> 00:04:20,163 And this one, 49 00:04:21,255 --> 00:04:31,704 It's run by Liz Quain and she's focused on like, you know, or the group is not just like world schooling, but like digital nomad families too. 50 00:04:31,824 --> 00:04:33,105 So that's a good resource. 51 00:04:33,705 --> 00:04:34,526 And she does a lot. 52 00:04:34,786 --> 00:04:37,828 She's pretty active with like doing Facebook lives and stuff too. 53 00:04:38,369 --> 00:04:41,972 So I think that's a good one to join. 54 00:04:43,734 --> 00:04:58,527 I would also say to join my Facebook group, Responsible Family Travel, also known as World Schoolers Traveling Sustainably. 55 00:04:59,107 --> 00:05:00,649 If you search that up on Facebook, 56 00:05:02,290 --> 00:05:03,571 You'll be able to find it. 57 00:05:04,032 --> 00:05:21,266 And that group, my group specifically is, um, focused on, you know, the sustainable and,

uh, responsible travel aspect of, um, world schooling and how we can be, uh, more mindful of our impact as travelers. 58 00:05:22,607 --> 00:05:22,827 Cool. 59 00:05:23,132 --> 00:05:30,215 Well, so beyond groups, what's another way that you can find meetups or groups around the country? 60 00:05:30,315 --> 00:05:41,041 Yeah, so like actually within those Facebook groups, I think that there are people that will like share their world schooling hubs or meetups and things like that that are happening. 61 00:05:42,221 --> 00:05:49,765 So I wanted to spend like the latter part of this episode kind of talking specifically about certain hubs and meetups. 62 00:05:50,305 --> 00:05:56,711 I think the one that we personally have participated in and we really enjoyed was Anahata. 63 00:05:57,512 --> 00:06:08,303 And that's a group or sorry, that's, um, she's got her, it's run by Patty, a woman named Patty, and she has her own like, you know, Facebook group as well. 64 00:06:08,363 --> 00:06:13,408 But it's a world schooling community in 65 00:06:15,127 --> 00:06:16,049 in Mexico. 66 00:06:17,392 --> 00:06:19,316 Mostly Yucatan Peninsula exclusively. 67 00:06:19,416 --> 00:06:22,262 It's bounced around a bit but it's all been like in Yucatan Peninsula. 68 00:06:22,675 --> 00:06:27,216 Yes, what did you like about that community when we did it? 69 00:06:27,436 --> 00:06:29,636 Yes, I think there's one caveat about it. 70 00:06:30,256 --> 00:06:35,077 It's evolved in many different ways. 71 00:06:35,617 --> 00:06:39,098 Our experience is not what she does now necessarily. 72 00:06:39,138 --> 00:06:40,458 Yes, that's true. 73 00:06:40,498 --> 00:06:42,259 I think there's a caveat there. 74 00:06:42,399 --> 00:06:47,140 You really have to go and look up her existing offering and see what it's like. 75 00:06:49,780 --> 00:07:08,552 What we got out of it, which a lot of the World Scoring Hubs now try to offer, is basically just a community living in the same area, and not kind of co-housing, but not really, because we shared meals together, like all the meals. 76 00:07:09,012 --> 00:07:15,897 In our situation, the kids had an on-site school that they would go to, but throughout the day, we'd do things like 77 00:07:18,238 --> 00:07:25,863 yoga or meditation or communication or fitness, just various activities throughout the day while people also work and stuff. 78 00:07:25,883 --> 00:07:32,467 So it's just kind of a co-living with some sort of structure built around it. 79 00:07:33,748 --> 00:07:35,929 But the thing I loved about it most was just the community. 80 00:07:37,270 --> 00:07:41,951 Other families there, the kids wake up in the morning and there's other kids that are automatically out there playing. 81 00:07:43,071 --> 00:07:45,052 So that was in set in Mexico. 82 00:07:45,112 --> 00:07:53,374 So the thing she does a lot now too, is she focuses heavily on involving the local Akpalum community. 83 00:07:53,414 --> 00:07:56,875 So a lot of the Mayan community that's part of that region. 84 00:07:57,775 --> 00:08:05,937 And she involves, part of hers is like sharing the cultural experience of how they live and what they do and stuff like that. 85 00:08:05,977 --> 00:08:06,937 So that's a really good one. 86 00:08:07,197 --> 00:08:07,757 Yeah, you're right. 87 00:08:07,777 --> 00:08:11,399 Like it has, uh, her program has evolved over the years. 88 00:08:11,839 --> 00:08:16,722 Um, and I do appreciate because, you know, Patty is Mexican. 89 00:08:16,962 --> 00:08:35,872 And so this is, it feels like there is like care and intention about like connecting with like local Mexican culture or, um, immerse immersing, uh, in Mexican culture that, uh, I really appreciated when we were there. 90 00:08:36,348 --> 00:08:37,329 Yeah, cool. 91 00:08:38,049 --> 00:08:38,850 What about another one? 92 00:08:39,110 --> 00:08:48,896 So another one that's kind of show or that's on our like, what do you call it? 93 00:08:49,516 --> 00:08:54,759 Awareness, and friends have done this too, is the world school pop-up hubs. 94 00:08:55,580 --> 00:08:56,941 And this is kind of so 95 00:08:58,106 --> 00:09:08,414 In the past, we've done world school pop-up communities where it's like a full-on program. 96 00:09:08,434 --> 00:09:17,882 You jump in and then the organizers are organizing this whole program and coordinating logistics and things like that. 97 00:09:18,623 --> 00:09:20,024 I feel like it's a lot of stress. 98 00:09:20,784 --> 00:09:27,670 I think back to when there used to be these pop-up communities called Stone Soup, 99 00:09:29,890 --> 00:09:36,872 I remember talking to the lady who was running it and there's a lot of things that go into learning that. 100 00:09:37,272 --> 00:09:48,535 The one that we participated in had like 35 families taking part and it was like programming during the week. 101 00:09:49,795 --> 00:09:54,436 What I like about these pop-up hubs and it's run by this woman named Rachel. 102 00:09:55,436 --> 00:09:57,337 She started it but 103 00:09:59,057 --> 00:10:09,359 actually families can choose to host a week, to be a host for a pop-up hub for a week. 104 00:10:10,059 --> 00:10:13,780 And it can be, like these take place anywhere in the world. 105 00:10:14,260 --> 00:10:24,962 Like if you have an idea to host a pop-up hub in Mexico, then pitch it to Rachel and then she can help you with planning it. 106 00:10:25,082 --> 00:10:26,262 But the planning part, 107 00:10:27,808 --> 00:10:37,393 is less stressful, in my opinion, than somebody putting on a full-on program. 108 00:10:37,413 --> 00:10:40,555 Because she takes some of the logistics of that away from you, right? 109 00:10:40,715 --> 00:10:52,040 Well, that and it's more just like, you come up with some activities to do as a group, and then the rest of the time is just like you can 110 00:10:54,283 --> 00:10:58,806 the families are who are participating have a little bit more flexibility. 111 00:10:58,846 --> 00:11:03,929 It's

not like you have to do this is the program from 9am to 6pm. 112 00:11:04,029 --> 00:11:08,612 It's like, Oh, no, every day this week, there's going to be like one or two activities that we'll do. 113 00:11:09,012 --> 00:11:11,473 And you're welcome to join or you're welcome not to. 114 00:11:11,954 --> 00:11:17,317 But you know, it's just like, flexible in that way. 115 00:11:17,977 --> 00:11:34,393 I think that harkens back to, I remember when we used to do the Family Adventure Summit stuff, and then we'd stick around for a month after in the cities that it happened. 116 00:11:35,074 --> 00:11:38,537 We'd just stay connected to the families that were there and be like, 117 00:11:39,498 --> 00:11:40,138 What are you guys doing? 118 00:11:40,218 --> 00:11:48,301 Oh, you're going to, like, when we were in Ubud, oh, you're going to Titi Batu, like, you know, to hang out. 119 00:11:48,381 --> 00:11:50,782 Like, let's let's go meet up with you there. 120 00:11:50,982 --> 00:11:51,202 Yeah. 121 00:11:51,222 --> 00:11:52,382 So, yeah. 122 00:11:52,742 --> 00:11:57,324 And what's nice now is anyone you talk to in the world's growing community is going to know of 123 00:11:58,084 --> 00:12:01,007 another hub or another meetup like it's there. 124 00:12:01,047 --> 00:12:02,928 So common now when we were doing it, there was. 125 00:12:03,208 --> 00:12:09,333 It was not as common, so a lot of us were searching for them, but they didn't really exist where they were hard to find. 126 00:12:09,393 --> 00:12:15,699 But now it's like it feels like everyone you talk to they've been to or know of other ones, so then it kind of helps with that. 127 00:12:16,719 --> 00:12:19,482 We have some more listed here, but I think before we go into these like. 128 00:12:20,823 --> 00:12:24,306 The world's going pop up or the world's going hub and the pop up hubs and stuff. 129 00:12:24,326 --> 00:12:24,706 It's it. 130 00:12:27,187 --> 00:12:32,891 It's been kind of a ongoing evolving thing over the last several years. 131 00:12:33,532 --> 00:12:34,973 There's a lot of interest in them. 132 00:12:35,153 --> 00:12:37,415 A lot of people have tried to do them. 133 00:12:38,575 --> 00:12:41,417 Like you said earlier, though, there's a lot of logistics. 134 00:12:41,978 --> 00:12:43,459 There's a lot of money involved. 135 00:12:43,599 --> 00:12:45,861 There's a lot of trust and a lot of things. 136 00:12:45,901 --> 00:12:51,305 So some succeed, some fail, some do it for a year or two. 137 00:12:51,885 --> 00:12:52,946 and then go away. 138 00:12:53,807 --> 00:12:57,729 The ones we're going to mention here, I think ones have been around for at least a few times. 139 00:12:57,970 --> 00:12:58,270 Yeah. 140 00:12:58,290 --> 00:13:00,732 So chances are they'll be around for a little bit longer. 141 00:13:01,793 --> 00:13:02,813 But don't be surprised. 142 00:13:02,833 --> 00:13:04,495 Like you mentioned Family Adventure Summit. 143 00:13:04,515 --> 00:13:06,236 That's how we first started world scoring. 144 00:13:06,816 --> 00:13:07,717 That was a conference. 145 00:13:07,737 --> 00:13:09,899 It was like a weekend or week long conference. 146 00:13:10,279 --> 00:13:11,440 They did it for three years. 147 00:13:11,460 --> 00:13:14,742 It was absolutely wonderful, but it was too many logistics, too expensive. 148 00:13:15,183 --> 00:13:16,644 And eventually they stopped doing it. 149 00:13:16,864 --> 00:13:17,224 And so. 150 00:13:19,015 --> 00:13:24,259 Even Lainey would put together her Project World School summits. 151 00:13:24,500 --> 00:13:27,002 That was several years. 152 00:13:27,022 --> 00:13:28,803 There were several years where she did that. 153 00:13:29,564 --> 00:13:40,333 Even she has since moved on to other types of activities or events. 154 00:13:40,673 --> 00:13:41,213 Yes. 155 00:13:41,734 --> 00:13:44,076 Anyways, it just goes to say, 156 00:13:45,660 --> 00:13:48,722 Do your research on the ones that you see or you hear about. 157 00:13:49,503 --> 00:13:53,126 Don't be afraid to try to poke around to see if anyone's gone to them. 158 00:13:54,347 --> 00:13:56,608 Try to get in touch with the host. 159 00:13:57,389 --> 00:14:07,957 It's a slightly unstable ground right now as far as where all these... And that's not to say that anyone's malicious or anything like that. 160 00:14:07,977 --> 00:14:10,179 It's just these are hard things to put on. 161 00:14:10,839 --> 00:14:11,500 And so I... 162 00:14:14,462 --> 00:14:17,866 tip my hat to anyone who's trying to trying to do a hub. 163 00:14:19,048 --> 00:14:19,829 But they are hard. 164 00:14:20,189 --> 00:14:23,794 And so just do some research and ask around around these. 165 00:14:23,834 --> 00:14:27,719 But the ones we're going to mention are ones we've heard of that have been around for a little while. 166 00:14:28,179 --> 00:14:30,522 They tend to have a little bit more structure to them. 167 00:14:31,464 --> 00:14:33,186 So yeah, good ones to try. 168 00:14:33,466 --> 00:14:39,890 And just in full transparency, we haven't done each of these personally, but we know people who have done them. 169 00:14:40,110 --> 00:14:43,532 So that's why I feel like it's important to mention them here. 170 00:14:43,552 --> 00:14:44,653 Yeah. 171 00:14:44,993 --> 00:14:47,334 Well, I'll do the wall. 172 00:14:47,574 --> 00:14:48,355 Yeah, I can do the first one. 173 00:14:48,535 --> 00:14:48,915 Yeah, sure. 174 00:14:49,275 --> 00:14:51,176 So the first one is called Forever Wild. 175 00:14:51,936 --> 00:14:53,857 It's based in Southeast Asia and Africa. 176 00:14:54,557 --> 00:15:01,339 And they do like enrichment activities, community dinners, field trips, that kind of stuff. 177 00:15:01,439 --> 00:15:04,800 This one, I think, has some sort of structure to it. 178 00:15:05,700 --> 00:15:08,441 It's a little bit looser than I think the next one we're going to mention. 179 00:15:09,542 --> 00:15:12,943 But it's been around for at least a couple of years. 180

00:15:13,083 --> 00:15:13,743 Yeah, yeah. 181 00:15:14,303 --> 00:15:16,704 And they we've seen several of them pop up over the years. 182 00:15:16,724 --> 00:15:30,427 We haven't we've yet to attend them We know a couple people have attended them So it seems like a good one to maybe research if that if those country or those Regions or something that seemed interesting Africans, right? 183 00:15:30,447 --> 00:15:30,627 Yeah. 184 00:15:30,647 --> 00:15:33,788 Yeah, and I think what I You know what? 185 00:15:33,828 --> 00:15:40,650 I was learning about them is you know, the days are it it's sort of like 186 00:15:41,716 --> 00:15:50,022 a few hours a day of community time, community learning time and stuff. 187 00:15:50,042 --> 00:16:03,211 If you're a radical unschooler, maybe these types of programs aren't the kind of thing for you, but if you are somebody like a family that does want a little bit of structure or maybe even just needs 188 00:16:05,178 --> 00:16:11,885 a break to send their kids to something while you're while you're, you know, focusing on your own thing. 189 00:16:11,985 --> 00:16:14,068 I mean, this could be this could be an option. 190 00:16:14,128 --> 00:16:15,770 And this one I can't remember. 191 00:16:15,790 --> 00:16:19,674 I think this one had shorter stay options to you, right? 192 00:16:19,734 --> 00:16:20,635 Yeah, I think so. 193 00:16:20,835 --> 00:16:24,959 It was like, oh, they had one-week programs and two-week programs. 194 00:16:25,139 --> 00:16:26,661 And they have some longer ones, too. 195 00:16:27,001 --> 00:16:29,123 World Scoring Pop-Up is a one-week one. 196 00:16:29,143 --> 00:16:30,004 That's a short one. 197 00:16:30,885 --> 00:16:35,189 Anahata, she likes it to be a month or longer. 198 00:16:35,209 --> 00:16:36,370 Or longer, yeah. 199 00:16:36,590 --> 00:16:37,692 Sometimes like three months. 200 00:16:37,732 --> 00:16:38,012 Yeah. 201 00:16:38,292 --> 00:16:42,736 It doesn't mean that the long ones are opposed to taking shorter, but it really 202 00:16:43,457 --> 00:16:46,941 It's hard for the program to cater to both short term and long term. 203 00:16:47,402 --> 00:16:49,965 So they tend to cater towards one or the other. 204 00:16:50,025 --> 00:16:50,265 Yeah. 205 00:16:50,486 --> 00:16:55,391 So if you're that might help you decide your research or if you reach out to the host and just say, 206 00:16:56,283 --> 00:16:58,604 hey, I really want to be somewhere for three months. 207 00:16:59,685 --> 00:17:02,186 How is your program support that? 208 00:17:02,226 --> 00:17:14,073 Because the other thing you don't want is you don't want to go to a program that's geared more towards one or two weeks and then you stay there for three months because it might be repetitive or it might get boring or it might be not challenging. 209 00:17:14,794 --> 00:17:21,498 Whereas you don't really want to go to one that's geared towards a month or longer and you're only there for a week because 210 00:17:22,118 --> 00:17:28,821 They're gonna like be doing very slow introduction stuff in the first week And then yeah, then you're leaving. 211 00:17:28,921 --> 00:17:31,623 So yeah, so it's just something to keep in mind. 212 00:17:32,083 --> 00:17:33,563 Uh, what about the next one the next one? 213 00:17:33,844 --> 00:17:35,864 Um, I want to mention is the hive. 214 00:17:36,265 --> 00:17:48,731 Um, they have a program in the dominican republic and then also in spain and um when we were first intro or when I first heard about the hive it was uh like 215 00:17:50,285 --> 00:17:54,567 few years ago, but I think that the program has evolved over the years. 216 00:17:54,787 --> 00:18:00,029 We had some friends who did the program and enjoyed it. 217 00:18:00,349 --> 00:18:14,615 Now, one of the things that they have is this six-week program that's focused on learning based off of the Sustainable Development Goals, the SDGs, which are like 218 00:18:16,176 --> 00:18:20,300 UN goals for, you know, international development by 2030. 219 00:18:20,440 --> 00:18:33,714 I think that was, that's one of the things and being somebody who is like very, you know, socially conscious, I think that is something that I like is this idea of like, 220 00:18:34,254 --> 00:18:43,483 Oh, we're learning, but we're also learning about how we fit within like the global community and how we fit within a global aspect. 221 00:18:43,703 --> 00:18:56,094 And this particular program is like, you know, you spend the first week kind of learning about yourself and then the next few weeks designing a project that might have like a global impact. 222 00:18:56,134 --> 00:18:59,697 And then, you know, the last week is about presenting your project. 223 00:19:00,778 --> 00:19:04,201 it definitely seems like it's more structured. 224 00:19:04,321 --> 00:19:04,522 Yeah. 225 00:19:04,562 --> 00:19:06,323 And we haven't done it yet. 226 00:19:07,504 --> 00:19:09,206 But yeah, it seems like it's more structured. 227 00:19:09,306 --> 00:19:24,240 But at the same time, it is like, I think if you're the type of family that likes to have that, that would it would in a community setting, you know, I think that would be helpful. 228 00:19:24,440 --> 00:19:25,101 Yeah, it'd be good. 229 00:19:26,522 --> 00:19:30,906 So the last one we have here, I'm actually unfamiliar with, so I might just let you talk about this one. 230 00:19:31,126 --> 00:19:38,053 Yeah, this one, again, I'd heard about this world school hub. 231 00:19:38,293 --> 00:19:39,934 It's called Deliberate Detour. 232 00:19:42,737 --> 00:19:50,963 again, what draws me to them is their like, focus on like, deep diving into a culture. 233 00:19:51,023 --> 00:19:58,688 So they're only located in, they only have programs in Oaxaca, Mexico, and Cusco, Peru. 234 00:19:59,369 --> 00:20:03,432 And they hire like local teachers and local like, 235 00:20:04,172 --> 00:20:13,215 guy, like people that are like from those communities to share about the

culture and teach about it. 236 00:20:13,475 --> 00:20:16,316 And then the program is like two to three weeks. 237 00:20:17,657 --> 00:20:23,259 There's like structured daily activities and then like field trips as well. 238 00:20:23,799 --> 00:20:29,541 But I, I really appreciate like the cultural immersion aspect of it. 239 00:20:29,641 --> 00:20:29,841 Yeah. 240 00:20:29,961 --> 00:20:30,942 And it's like, 241 00:20:31,922 --> 00:20:38,166 based off of like local knowledge and not, not just, you know, somebody that is like, their 242 00:20:41,983 --> 00:20:44,925 for a short period of time that's putting something together. 243 00:20:46,826 --> 00:20:52,189 There's pros and cons of each of them. 244 00:20:52,789 --> 00:21:04,876 As a family, as you're choosing what kind of world-schooling hub or community to join, you have to think about how does it fit with your personal values too. 245 00:21:05,596 --> 00:21:09,359 Can I be the grumpy OG guy for just a second? 246 00:21:10,300 --> 00:21:16,605 So I think there's been a tendency to think that World Scoring is only these hubs. 247 00:21:19,547 --> 00:21:22,330 These hubs are fairly new in the World Scoring world. 248 00:21:23,410 --> 00:21:27,011 only the last few years that they've actually stabilized in any way. 249 00:21:27,051 --> 00:21:30,672 Some of these, not all, but some of these have actually stabilized in any way. 250 00:21:31,612 --> 00:21:36,033 But for the last five plus years, they didn't really exist. 251 00:21:36,833 --> 00:21:41,294 Or if they existed, they existed in very small pockets, very specific groups. 252 00:21:42,274 --> 00:21:48,896 And so most of us from kind of our generation of world's going and the ones before us, 253 00:21:50,782 --> 00:22:04,028 just traveled, just literally traveled full-time with their kids, did what we call world-schooling, which we talked about that in our first episode of teaching the kids as we go, using learning opportunities throughout the world. 254 00:22:05,489 --> 00:22:06,869 That's really what world-schooling is. 255 00:22:07,289 --> 00:22:08,730 These hubs are fantastic. 256 00:22:08,750 --> 00:22:11,371 I think they're a great way for people to go 257 00:22:13,572 --> 00:22:28,227 if they're feeling hesitant anyway or don't know how to get started or just want to target to get started but by no means is this represent all of world's going and not even i wouldn't even say the only way to yeah the only way it's not it's not the only way 258 00:22:28,827 --> 00:22:44,277 So I think, you know, use these as a way, a possible way to do world scoring when you do your research, but know that it's like, literally it's just traveling, traveling with your family and using learning opportunities. 259 00:22:44,318 --> 00:22:46,879 So it's not, it doesn't have to be these things. 260 00:22:47,620 --> 00:22:54,905 And the other thing, the reason I kind of want to say that is too, because I think people there, and we've seen this a lot in the Facebook groups, 261 00:22:55,887 --> 00:23:00,770 They'll want to world school and then they'll look at some of these programs and see how expensive they are because they're expensive to run. 262 00:23:00,811 --> 00:23:02,952 A lot of these are really expensive to run. 263 00:23:02,992 --> 00:23:09,036 Then they get turned off and then they're like, oh, I guess I can't world school because I can't go to one of these hubs. 264 00:23:09,677 --> 00:23:11,358 That's not the case at all. 265 00:23:11,618 --> 00:23:13,119 It is absolutely not the case. 266 00:23:13,159 --> 00:23:21,866 Yes, it takes a certain amount of privilege and it takes a certain amount of income or gumption, I guess, to do it. 267 00:23:22,586 --> 00:23:28,511 but you don't need to put up the kind of cash that these world's going hubs require in order to do it. 268 00:23:28,811 --> 00:23:48,228 Um, so yeah, yeah, I think you have to sort of, again, what I was saying is like balance out like the value that you think you'll gain from, you know, the world's schooling hubs that you, uh, participate in and also, um, 269 00:23:50,030 --> 00:23:56,484 your own personal values or your own personal goals of why you're world schooling in the first place. 270 00:23:59,458 --> 00:24:04,381 you know, we tend to be as a family, we tend to be more independent. 271 00:24:04,561 --> 00:24:07,043 And like, you know, we're just going to do our own thing. 272 00:24:07,523 --> 00:24:13,007 If the stars in line and there's another family in the city that we're at, then we'll hang out with them. 273 00:24:13,047 --> 00:24:15,769 But, you know, we're still going to do our own thing. 274 00:24:16,369 --> 00:24:23,154 And so we have, we have participated in some of these world schooling hubs, like, you know, 275 00:24:23,694 --> 00:24:31,886 throughout our travels, but it's definitely not like, uh, our. 276 00:24:34,274 --> 00:24:35,375 It's not our priority. 277 00:24:35,435 --> 00:24:41,977 It's like, okay, we'll do it if it makes sense to us or if it aligns with our travel schedule. 278 00:24:42,297 --> 00:24:45,098 We're not adjusting our travel for the most part. 279 00:24:45,278 --> 00:24:54,120 Sometimes we are, but for the most part, we're not adjusting or planning our travels to go from hub to hub to hub to hub. 280 00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:55,321 They're nice. 281 00:24:56,041 --> 00:25:00,962 They just end up being sprinkled variations into our experience. 282 00:25:01,082 --> 00:25:02,603 I think that's the thing. 283 00:25:02,923 --> 00:25:08,567 And I think the other thing is with the world's going up, you just also have to make sure your expectations are set correctly. 284 00:25:09,427 --> 00:25:18,973 You have to understand the complexity of this and not go into it thinking this is a polished, all-inclusive resort, because it's not going to be. 285 00:25:18,993 --> 00:25:23,857 And so you need to adjust expectations based on that, regardless of what the sales page says. 286 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00:25:25,858 I think you need to set expectations. 287 00:25:26,198 --> 00:25:40,472 And the other expectation, and this is one of the reasons why I think we probably don't go hub to hub to hub, is because even the ones that are culturally immersive, you're still a group within this culture. 288 00:25:41,553 --> 00:25:45,898 So you're still kind of coming at it from like an outside, like an outside group. 289 00:25:46,318 --> 00:25:50,843 So it's still got this little bit of like a tourist group, tour group mentality. 290 00:25:52,385 --> 00:25:53,566 And that's just the way it is. 291 00:25:54,067 --> 00:25:56,910 So we still really prefer 292 00:25:58,978 --> 00:26:07,305 living in an apartment or home in a residential area, and just like living life as if we were there. 293 00:26:08,646 --> 00:26:09,967 And so that's our style. 294 00:26:10,027 --> 00:26:11,948 So if that resonates with you, that's great. 295 00:26:12,729 --> 00:26:15,771 If the world's going south, the hubs resonate with you, that's great. 296 00:26:15,911 --> 00:26:17,252 Or if a mixture, that's great. 297 00:26:17,272 --> 00:26:20,455 Yeah, I just want to make sure that we're, we're 298 00:26:21,963 --> 00:26:24,064 establishing that there's multiple ways to do this. 299 00:26:24,104 --> 00:26:27,946 And before you join one of them, you know, talk to people that have done it. 300 00:26:28,586 --> 00:26:36,571 It's to see if they can give you like a candid, you know, a candid experience. 301 00:26:36,591 --> 00:26:40,072 They can give their candid opinions of the experience that they had. 302 00:26:40,092 --> 00:26:40,393 Yeah. 303 00:26:42,831 --> 00:26:46,052 Yeah, and now I forgot what I was gonna say, but. 304 00:26:47,293 --> 00:26:48,813 I'm sorry, I talked too much. 305 00:26:48,833 --> 00:26:50,154 No, no, no, no. 306 00:26:51,814 --> 00:26:56,016 With that said, we have met some really great families. 307 00:26:56,136 --> 00:27:04,819 We've made some very close friends just from like these world schooling hub experiences. 308 00:27:04,899 --> 00:27:06,480 And so those are like, 309 00:27:09,588 --> 00:27:24,473 Those are why we would still suggest, if you're a family that's curious about world schooling, that's why we would suggest, consider one of the hubs as an introduction too. 310 00:27:25,033 --> 00:27:29,154 Anything else you want to mention? 311 00:27:29,834 --> 00:27:30,535 No, that's it. 312 00:27:30,795 --> 00:27:31,435 All right, great. 313 00:27:32,221 --> 00:27:33,542 Well, that's all for today. 314 00:27:33,982 --> 00:27:38,743 Thank you for joining us on this episode of World Schooling Q&A with Astrid and Clint. 315 00:27:39,124 --> 00:27:48,347 Be sure to check out the show notes for any links we mentioned in the episode and visit my website, thewanderingdaughter.com to dive deeper into world schooling and family travel. 316 00:27:48,944 --> 00:27:52,606 If you like what you hear, please consider supporting The Wandering Daughter on Patreon. 317 00:27:52,946 --> 00:27:54,947 It really helps us out and keeps the show going. 318 00:27:55,227 --> 00:28:01,430 You'll also get exclusive perks like episode transcripts, additional resources, access to office hours with us, and more. 319 00:28:01,950 --> 00:28:04,711 You can find us on Spotify or the podcast app of your choice. 320 00:28:05,171 --> 00:28:09,954 If you're listening to this on Spotify, you can tap the bell icon to get notified when new episodes come out. 321 00:28:10,494 --> 00:28:13,315 And if you like this episode, please give us a five-star review. 322 00:28:13,675 --> 00:28:15,296 It really helps new people find our show. 323 00:28:16,113 --> 00:28:22,336 If you're watching this on YouTube, don't forget to like and subscribe and tap the bell icon to get notified of new episodes. 324 00:28:22,997 --> 00:28:28,219 You can follow me on Instagram, at Wander Daughter, or follow The Wandering Daughter on Facebook. 325 00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:30,801 Links to these are also in the show notes. 326 00:28:31,281 --> 00:28:42,767 If you have any world schooling questions you'd like us to answer for future episodes, feel free to throw them in the comments or send us a message at thewanderingdaughter.com forward slash podcast. 327 00:28:43,417 --> 00:28:45,420 Until next time, happy travels. 328 00:28:45,901 --> 00:28:46,141 Bye.