THE SELF: GRADUATE TRAVEL
Traversing Travesty.
Why travelling is an important experience for graduates
to have, and what you can gain from the experience.
A
nyone who has ever spot of travel, and the experience then I stopped. “Why am I so
watched a fi lm about one gets with it, is actually determined to have everything
backpacking seems to recognised by more fi rms than in my control,” I thought.
think it would be the worst thing ever before, as “commercially Having such a set path would be
any student could ever do. Anyone viable”. The question is what restrictive, and would go against
who’s ever been backpacking type of experience? the very idea of travelling – to
knows that you’re not going to explore. There is no need to
end up tied to a chair, in a deserted Travelling is, to me, one of the be so rigid, as long as my fi rst
factory in Slovakia, getting your most liberating experiences night was booked, the rest of the
eyeballs tortuously removed by you can ever have. I remember journey would take care of itself.
a sadistic middle-aged estate booking my ticket, compiling
agent, à la Hostel. There are a list of embassies, fi nding I remember waking up at
many preconceptions about out names of hotels in various ridiculous-o’clock to catch the
travelling, and while a few are possible destinations, and trying train down to Dover. Standing
true (the showers in some places to plan each and every detail to on the platform, I remember
really are horrid!), the majority ensure that my journey went simultaneously feeling
are nothing more than hearsay. A as smoothly as possible. And exhilarated and anxious, each
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HPD Sept ‘09 - Feb ‘10
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