by Natalie Karneef | Jun 17, 2016
Bronzed bikini goddesses gaze through mirrored sunglasses over ocean waves. Bleach-haired surfers with six-pack abs you could see from space look as cool and unperturbed as Roman statues. You are in Bali. Specifically, you are in Canggu, Bali; and currently, you are...
by Natalie Karneef | Feb 10, 2016
It is 1960 in Uganda right now. At least that’s what it feels like in a bare, windy classroom in Nyakagyezi, a rural village 400 km from Kampala, where volunteers are imparting sexual health information that would be considered basic knowledge, or even archaic...
by Natalie Karneef | Aug 19, 2015
It’s been almost 15 months, with a 3 month break, since I left Canada. I left with a mission: to find a different way of life, that was less about depending on one person and a frantic career to fulfill me, and more about being in community, having purpose, and...
by Natalie Karneef | May 5, 2015
I have to come clean about one of the reasons I came to New Zealand. Usually, I say that I fell in love with the people here. That is true. Also, the jaw-dropping beauty around every corner, and the laidback pace of life. The fact that Kiwis go to the mall barefoot,...
by Natalie Karneef | Nov 26, 2014
There’s this awesome thing in New Zealand. It’s called car relocation. Yeah, they probably have it in other parts of the world, too, but I guess since people come here specifically to drive from Point A to Point B (and with good reason – if you want to feel like...
