Introduction

There are experiences that you’ll never forget. Some years ago our gran parents, parents had less opportunities to travel. People were not used to leave their country, far from their friends and family to discover a new land. How do we decide to go far from our daily life ? Why do we want to experience something new, even if it can be difficult ? 

Two years ago, Lea Dabon chose to leave her life to discover something new, to challenge herself et meet people all around the word. She lived in Australia, on the other side of the word for 2 years. 

Taking the decision

Choosing to try an unkown land

After three years of studies, Lea Dabon took the decision to have a break before her master’s degree, to live a new experience, to challenge herself and take the time to really think about what she wants for herself. She has always wanted to travel but she didn’t knew that she would do it that early in her life and that long. 

Travelling alone can be really scary because we loose all our bearings. We need to start everything again in a place that we don’t know. That can be scary but also a chance to be someone else, and to do things differently. If you want to meet people, you can book an hostel on the website HostelWorld.

Finding the right destination

How can we choose a place where we want to leave when we don’t know how life really is in this country ? 

At the begging Lea Dabon didn’t especially wanted to go to Australia. If you look the the social media you’ll think that it’s a crazy and scary country with all the dangerous animals you can find there and It’s also very far from France. The most important thing that you need to take in consideration when you are looking for your destination is the lifestyle you are looking for. For Australia for example, even if you’ haven’t experienced yet how life is going there, you know that it’s close to the ocean, the weather is good, people are chill and a lot of foreign people are travelling there. 

First steps in an unknown land

An unknown land

From the first step you take on this new country, you’re discovering everything. At the begging you need to adapt very fast because you don’t have the choice. The language is different, the way of saying hello to people, the way of crossing the street, the food… everything is so different. It is very interesting and tiring à the same time because you are constantly learning. You can’t be passive to need to take decisions on your own, you need to take risks to build your life in this new land. You need to be brave and it’s something that is gonna make you stronger.

A different culture

When Léa Dabon told us her story, she said that the culture, the population, the relations she built there has been the most important for her. People who never left their country to live in a new one doesn’t really realize that the daily life can be that different somewhere else. Discovering a new culture is understanding how people can react differently, work differently and think differently than you. Léa Dabon also met people from her country travelling in Australia who had a really different mindset that we can have in France because they adapted to the culture of this new country. Humans generally imitate the behavior of people around them and it is what’s happening when you live in a new country. 

Pack your back to a new experience

Travelling is never an experience you’ll regret because it teach you a lot about being open-minded. Even if it is difficult to take the decision to leave alone, to loose your conformable life in France, you need to take the risk. The most difficult when you live a beautiful adventure like one is probably to come back to your normal life because you have been so rich of experiences during a time that you want to live more. Travelling makes you rich of memories, of humanity and experiences. If this article interested you, you can check the one of Elena Besesty about her travel experiences.