About
a little bit about me
My name is Jena Moldenhauer
I am a South African who recently lived abroad in Seoul, South Korea – although, I’m now back in Cape Town, South Africa. Starting this blog is something I have always aspired to do, not only to share my adventures of my travels, but as a personal, online journal of sorts. A way to blurt out my thoughts as bluntly, beautifully, perfectly or imperfectly as I wish. So let’s begin.
Originally, I was born in a town in the Eastern Cape called East London, the town both my parents were raised. After a few years in East London, I later moved to Hillcrest, Durban where I was schooled for my primary school years. For high school, I then moved to Vereeniging, Gauteng in which I attended a very small, private school and lived out my high school years until matric, until, yes, I moved again. This time to the stunning Mpumalanga, going to school in a town called Whiteriver, finishing off my matric year.
Looking back I couldn’t be happier with my upbringing. Moving around taught me the lesson that nothing in life is permanent, the house you live in, the friends you have – and I guess this is true for almost everything in life, isn’t it. I guess this is something I grew accustomed to and well, still feel is a part of me now.
In 2016, after my many years of moving around the country, I finally found myself in the town of Stellenbosch, Western Cape to study at Stellenbosch University. Studying Geology was not really what I thought I would see myself doing, but there I was, the end of 2019, 4 years later, with my Bachelor of Science (Honors) in Earth Sciences. After a year abroad in South Korea, I’m now doing my Master of Science in Geology at the University of Cape Town.
Apart from the mild rock/gemstone collection in my bedroom at home and a randomly uttered geology fact every few days, I don’t feel my life will be fully geology orientated just yet. I’m at that stage where I find myself just wanting to be more than a 9 to 5, geology loving, workaholic. I want to make memories and live before I find a comfortable small, coastal city somewhere beautiful to spend the rest of my days.
This is my time to find myself, understand what makes me happy, what doesn’t, and figure out how I want this thing called ‘life’ to look like.
So, let’s make some discoveries.