Jessica Panacola, welcome to the Potterscast.

Thank you so much for having me here, Paul.

I'm stoked to have you on this show.

Okay, now, before we get too far into this, what part of the planet are you living on?

So currently, I'm in the D.C. area.

I live in Maryland.

So, yeah, I'm in Maryland and kind of close to like Bethesda where that is. Okay. So you say currently. So what does that mean? Is that

means you got plans?

No, I did. I used to travel a lot lot so I'm originally from New York I traveled a lot I used to be an art

teacher I taught around the world in South America I taught in Bolivia for like four months I

taught in Morocco for two years and I taught in South Korea for two years and I was a

K-12 art teacher in all of those places. Good night. How did you land those gigs? So it's really funny.

Once you get into an international teaching community, you kind of just get into a network of people who have

a vagabonding lifestyle and they just like to travel around and teach. And it's a really, really

great opportunity for traveling and gaining new experiences, meeting people, learning new languages, and getting to teach kids from

all over the place.

Did you have to have a teaching degree before you applied for these positions?

I did, yes.

So, I mean, there are definitely schools that have different requirements as far as that goes. I taught at, so I taught at

international schools and American schools that either required a bachelor's degree. So I have a

bachelor's in studio art with a concentration in ceramics, and I also have

a master's degree in teaching. Okay. So, and you heard of this how, like how did this come

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