I’ve always been intoxicated with the prospect of living multiple lives. To escape to another part of the world, experience dynamic cultures and meet extraordinary people from all walks of life who will enrich mine. And very soon I will have that privilege. From my home, in a small corner of the Antipodes, I’m about to undertake one of the most exciting adventures of my life – six months of study on the other side of the world, in Europe, as part of my university degree.
Denmark: Exercise a high degree of caution. Terrorist attacks can occur at any time. The threat of right-wing extremism is rising.France: Exercise a high degree of caution. France’s national terrorist alert warning is at the highest level. While I had known that the rise of the far right in Europe had been an increasing trend for some time, I always distanced this as something which was, for the most part, generational. After all, there were pockets of ignorance in every country, often perpetuated by a demographic which perhaps hadn’t grown up in more multicultural societies following the influx of immigration.