Maybe start with raw journals and photos and take us through your journey how you became more polished. Thank you for sharing and I’ve never really “jumped off the deep end” so much. I am a first gen college grad and graduate school grad. I interned in DC on capital hill in college but nothing too crazy. I was not someone who people thought would intern in DC let alone go to college. Maybe I never believe that I could until I did.
Hi Mark, reading journals are always great.... memories remembered and relived! Sharing these make the memories travel like you did. :-) Thanks from Australia from a traveler who he now inspired to read her own journals.... :-)
The summer after my freshman year, I did the BUNAC program in London. It was my first time abroad and my first time living alone in a big city. The first week was really rough, I cried every day, but looking back on my journal from then, I could see how much growth happened in that first week alone. It was overall a trying but amazing summer.
Yes, I do! Rather than one particular moment, it was the discoveries over the course of the summer- that I loved going to museums and the theater alone, the confidence to meet new people and the skills to navigate a big city, my need to balance city life with being in nature. Immersed in nothing familiar, I learned what was most important to me and really fortified myself with writing, reading, and art. I’ve loved solo traveling ever since.
Interesting experiment in writing and I'm sure you'll evolve in surprising ways over time. And it must be a mind trip to be going in time and revisiting that younger Marko. I wonder what you'll learn from him.
It definitely is! It constantly reminds me of how much I have grown, but also how many things I wished for came true - if in different ways than I expected.
Maybe start with raw journals and photos and take us through your journey how you became more polished. Thank you for sharing and I’ve never really “jumped off the deep end” so much. I am a first gen college grad and graduate school grad. I interned in DC on capital hill in college but nothing too crazy. I was not someone who people thought would intern in DC let alone go to college. Maybe I never believe that I could until I did.
Hi Mark, reading journals are always great.... memories remembered and relived! Sharing these make the memories travel like you did. :-) Thanks from Australia from a traveler who he now inspired to read her own journals.... :-)
The summer after my freshman year, I did the BUNAC program in London. It was my first time abroad and my first time living alone in a big city. The first week was really rough, I cried every day, but looking back on my journal from then, I could see how much growth happened in that first week alone. It was overall a trying but amazing summer.
Do you still have the journal? What was the moment that stuck out to you as the most meaningful?
Yes, I do! Rather than one particular moment, it was the discoveries over the course of the summer- that I loved going to museums and the theater alone, the confidence to meet new people and the skills to navigate a big city, my need to balance city life with being in nature. Immersed in nothing familiar, I learned what was most important to me and really fortified myself with writing, reading, and art. I’ve loved solo traveling ever since.
Interesting experiment in writing and I'm sure you'll evolve in surprising ways over time. And it must be a mind trip to be going in time and revisiting that younger Marko. I wonder what you'll learn from him.
It definitely is! It constantly reminds me of how much I have grown, but also how many things I wished for came true - if in different ways than I expected.