Travelling: Soup for the soul

@sidetrax via Twenty20

I remember taking my first trip abroad and I was incredibly nervous. I was quite young — still in high school when I left. I knew I didn’t want to stay home as I was bored and uninterested with what was going on around me. That’s not mentioning that I was getting into a lot of trouble which didn’t make my parents happy.

My parents decided to send me away on an exchange programme. They thought it would be a good…