WAS IT ONE BIG FEVER DREAM?

So I went on a year exchange to London. So what. So many people do. So why is my blog important? Well it’s not really. But, after I arrived home, I felt like people around me didn’t really care about what I had to say nor hear about my experience. So one reason i'm here is to spread my wisdom with people who are interested.

So firstly my interest in exchange first stemmed from hearing about my mums travels when she was in her early to mid 20s and her own university exchange from Curtin University, Perth to University of Denver, Colorado. She told me about hiring a van and touring America with her newfound family.

Now, I have this overwhelming feeling of all this built-up energy inside me from this incredible year away is quickly turning into this massive fever dream that never happened. Time zones and other forms of life distance me from the close connections that felt like family, and the pictures feel like I'm watching a life of an ulterior persona I created, ceasing to exist.

I also love to help and inspire others. My aim is to share/ reflect on my experience to inspire and teach people the importance to grow and push themselves to do more than they imagined. I promise this is not all selfish.

I grew up in a fairly small town, called Yallingup, but have always felt like a big soul. I've always I felt small and confined to a very remote corner of the world. By the time I moved out of home for university I needed a push of independence and a way to find the true me. As cliché as that sounds.

Initially, I was actually terrified to even fill out the exchange form and in all honesty, I didn’t even believe applying was real. I learnt to operate in foreign languages solo traveling, I learnt how to make lifelong connections with strangers, I learnt to deal with emotionally and physically stressful situations alone and techniques to rely on myself when no one else was there. But I’ll talk more about what I actually did in my next post.

So, go on n get out,

Misti xx