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Jamie Chapman is a certified teacher in secondary social studies and health and PE. Her love of education and travel has paved the way for her to homeschool her own children over the last nine years. Jamie, her husband, and two children live in Saudi Arabia, where her husband is a helicopter pilot. They travel the world as often as possible because they believe that education is best learned from experiencing the world hands-on. In Jamie’s spare time, she edits videos for her small YouTube channel, The C Life, and she also helps parents transition from traditional schooling to homeschooling. Jamie and her husband have been working for the last few years, hoping to leap from land life to full-time cruisers.

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