When signing up for this trip, I had no idea what to expect. While I have multiple friends who are nursing majors and one friend who is a social work major, I entered this trip like the title of my blog makes it seem, Just a Teacher and Her Passport. While equipped with pedagogy and content knowledge, my knowledge of social and especially health issues is more limited. I am excited to see how my experience in the classroom and working with a variety of students apply to the health and social aspects of our society and our world. When students enter the classroom, their mind is not focused fully on the day ahead of them in school because many are dealing with social issues such as homelessness, incarceration of a family member, food insecurity, health issues, and a variety of other factors. These social issues that we will be exploring in this course are very real and preoccupy the minds of many children in our nation’s and our world’s schools. When caring for the mind of a student, you must first care for the student so that they are ready and able to learn, and many times that includes caring for these real issues that people across the United States, Canada, Iceland, and many other countries are facing.