When I was barely 18 I decided to go on a Summer adventure to the US. I applied for a J1 Summer Work and Travel visa, found myself a job in a hotel in New Orleans, packed my bags and off to America (for the very first time) we go. Little did I know, that it would turn out to be one of the biggest learning experiences of my life. Early morning a British Airways plane would take me from Madrid to London Heathrow. Later on an American Airlines would go from there to New Orleans via Dallas. There someone from the company I’d be working for would pick me up. I remember it as if it were yesterday. The smell of adventure and airplane food in the air, families chatting about their coming vacation or how sad they were to leave Europe but so happy to soon be back home. I was just 18, but I had already been 3 years on and off on the road. I guess on that account I could have been considered old and experienced, but what would happen some hours later, made me feel like a little girl all over again. Everything went […]

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