SSU Travels the World

Now that I’ve returned to Canadian soil and answered the repeated question of what my favorite moment and place was, life is ‘normal’ again. This feels strange and I find myself bringing up anecdotes and quotes whenever I can slip them into conversations. Aside from the obvious great experiences gained from a trip like this, this trip taught me to process my experiences. I have always been one to avoid sharing my thoughts or writing them down in a journal, I would simply brush it aside and move on. The problem, I now realize, with this method is that I lose opportunities to grow. Through the mandatory journaling and debrief sessions througout the trip I was no longer able to avoid processing what I was experiencing.  I am far from being natural at this, I have yet to be a nightly journaler, but now I can at least tell you reasons that make my favorite moments so significant to me.