Linköping University and The University of Chester have long been collaborating on a two-week course module for Swedish student teachers of English. After exploring aspects of storytelling and creative learning, being exposed to the critical pedagogy that informs the course design, the participants visit English secondary schools to teach through storytelling. As teacher researchers on the module, we wish to capture how the student teachers’ experience teaching through storytelling and crossing cultural, social and physical boundaries. The study demonstrates that such immersive experiences can challenge assumptions, stimulate new ways of thinking and potentially inform the participants’ future practice.