Wong Soon Fen is a lifelong learner who began her education journey outdoors as a child where hours were spent playing with friends from the neighbouring ‘kampongs’ before her first formal education in the now defunct Cambridge Primary School. The journey continued in different schools and culminated at NUS where she spent four years playing (and learning!) at Kent Ridge Hall while majoring in English Language and Sociology, and received her BA (Hons) in English Language. It took on a few different tracks as she traversed across the playgrounds at the College of Physical Education, Raffles Girls’ School, Shree Panch Ratna Rajya Laxmi Girls’ High School (Nepal) and Southeast East Asian Ministry of Education Organisation (SEAMEO) Regional Language Centre (RELC), and along the way, picked up an MSc in Applied Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh before her current stop at NUS. Since joining NUS at the Centre for English Language Communication (CELC) in 2007, College of Alice & Peter Tan (formerly Angsana College) in 2012 and Ridge View Residential College (RVRC) in 2022, she has taught and learnt from undergraduates and postgraduates from different schools – Arts and Social Sciences, Business, Computing, Design and Environment, Science, Medicine and Music. As a student, teacher, teacher trainer, project manager and mentor at the different stations, Soon Fen has had the privilege of interacting with the beautiful peoples in Botswana, Cambodia, India, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Thailand, Timor Leste and Vietnam. This ongoing learning journey has given her research opportunities in language teaching, teacher education, pedagogy, collaborative learning, experiential learning, intercultural communication and educational work in developing countries.