Do you feel unexcited by the idea of going to university or college? Do you feel like school has killed your love of learning? You’re not alone.
The idea of going travelling right after high school wasn’t something that either Amanda or Ryan considered, but after having completed university and going travelling, they’ve realized how much travel taught them that school wasn’t able to teach them, or didn’t teach them well.
On this episode, they discuss:
- Language learning
- History
- Social skills and communication
- Finances and budgeting
Did you learn a language in high school or university, but feel frustrated because you still can’t speak it fluently? Did you learn about history simply to regurgitate the information out for a test, and then forgot about it? Do you struggle with meeting new people and interacting with people who are different from yourself? A budget? What’s a budget?
Travelling gives you a different perspective on learning a language, and shows you that learning a language can be fun and fulfilling. Every day abroad can be a history lesson, and history is actually super interesting when you experience it first hand. Travelling gives you the opportunity to meet hundreds of people from around the world, and interact with them at a deeper level. Finally, travel teaches you how to budget because you only have so much money and you are forced to choose what you want to do with it each day. The value of your money becomes completely different when you’re abroad.
Enjoy!
Show Notes for this Episode…
- Travel vs. public school & university education
- A few of the things that you can learn better abroad than you can learn at home
- Learning a language is practical… it’s also fun!
- Use your money to go to the place where they speak the language and engross yourself in the culture, instead of studying from a text book
- Learn about history first hand, and form your own opinion
- Realize that history is interesting
- Learn about things that you’ve never learned about before while you are abroad
- School takes interesting subjects and makes them unappealing… travel can change this!
- Meeting and engaging with people who are so different from you
- Usually the assumptions you make about people are wrong
- Budgeting… sigh….
- Do the math on how much you spend on coffee in a month, times it by 12, and recognize where your money is going!
- Pre-travel and travel gives you the incentive to save
- And much more… Here’s the episode!
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