Have you ever dreamed of travelling the world? I have. Since I was a kid, I always wanted to get out of the 200 mile radius Kathmandu Valley where I spent almost 19 years of my life, waiting patiently for an opportunity. Luckily, I was one of the few from Nepal that \u201cmake it\u201d, all thanks to Rollins College and the generous Alfonds scholarship that has made my dream come true. I had been already studying abroad in the United States for about 2 years when I made my way to Jacobs University, Germany.<\/p>\n
To many the choice to travel is an option, a leisure, to me and many other from the so called \u201cthird world\u201d countries, it is a conscious decision that involves countless visits to the embassy, paperwork ranging from plane tickets and itinerary to travel plans for each day, wait times for visa ranging from a week to a month, and of course, the daunting visa application fee which feels more like a lottery. Needing a visa to travel almost anywhere in the world is a dream breaker for someone like me with a not-so-powerful passport. Nevertheless, there are ways and Rollins had one for me. For the study abroad program in Germany, I had to apply for a Schengen visa that allowed me to travel to 26 European countries.<\/p>\n
Apart from Germany which was my second, the third European country, or rather the city, I travelled was the city of Prague in Czech Republic, which is the most beautiful city in the world if you ask me. The Gothic art and architecture \u2013 palaces so grand that make your problems go away, make you feel insignificant yet keep you in awe of appreciation of the human kind that once built it. I will be writing more about my travel to three cities in Europe in the coming blog posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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