Step 2 - Decision

So I liked my exchange year in Italy in 2008 - 2009.

Exchange week in Portogruaro and visit to Venice

I already then decided that whenever the next opportunity to go abroad will rise I'll take it. I've travelled to 15 countries with scouts and friends. My family didn't travel much abroad when I and my sisters were young. We went around Finland and so when I was old enough I felt the urge to go and see the world! I've attended international scout camps in the UK and Canada, done two InterRail trips around Europe and other shorter trips.

Holiday in Lanzarote

Then I got accepted to Tampere University of Applied Sciences and started studying media. I heard that I could include a period of study abroad to my degree - CAN I PACK MY BAGS ALREADY?

Campfire in the scout camp World Scout Moot in Canada 2014

When I was participating a scout camp last summer in Canada I met new people. Few of them happened to be from Australia. I had been wondering when I could travel there and how I could arrange things so that I could get to spend some time there once travelled so far. Then it hit me. I talked to girls and they gave me a name of an appropriate school.

Macquarie University, Sydney.

I had been thinking it would be so hard to really go there as there is no contract between the schools. I'd have to arrange just about everything by myself. When I got home the note with the name of the school was burning in my wallet.

The dreams are meant to be realised.