My Courageous Journey Towards a New Beginning: Keeping My Memories AliveFor author Philomena Thomas, coming to America was a journey. Crossing the Indian and the Atlantic Oceans and flying half way around the world to land on U. S. soil changed her in many ways. In A New Beginning, My Courageous Journey, Thomasa Montessori teacher for forty nine yearsshares her life story. From leaving Sri Lanka in 1968, to her years as a teacher, to her worldwide travels, she expresses the passion she feels for her teaching career and