The Beginning – Introducing the world
I was never the big traveler – my family only ever went to places where we had family; Norway, Switzerland and Kosovo. But I won’t lie and say I never really went anywhere else. Somehow during the last few years we decided to try some new places: Germany, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, Hungary, and with my schools I went to England and Greece.
However, this is only Europe and it is this small continent my geographical knowledge is limited to. Therefore this blog will hopefully describe the expansion of my knowledge on the rest of world. I want it to show the transaction from me being a person who thinks Bolivia and Cambodia are countries in Africa, that Bangladesh is a city in the Middle East, that people from Colombia live in small huts made out of dirt and branches to me knowing that out of all Spanish speaking people the ones from Spain lisp, that a Nepalese has two languages: Nepali and the language of their own caste, that in Bangladesh you eat with your fingers no matter how rich you are and that to a Londoner punctuality and functionality is everything.
Sometime during my last year in High School I must have reached a point where I needed a different kind of settings – I had had enough of integrals, vectors, thermodynamics, the post modern time in Danish literature and that whole routine that came with going to a school in a small city. I wanted to burst this safety bobble the Danish society had built around me, so I dedicated my gap year to increasing my knowledge, finding my own limits and conquering my fears.
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Courage is not the absence of fear!
