Students are looking forward to travelling

I plan to go to Budapest this summer to see my fiancé graduate. For me, the ideal summer trip would be somewhere in South America or Asia, somewhere tropical where I can detach myself from the busy world of Europe.

For me, travelling is all about embracing different cultures, encountering different faces, and breathing different air.

An experience that changed me was when I travelled last summer to study in the US for four months. It made me see a completely different side of the world. The places I visited were incredible and so were the people I met who had a huge influence on me. Shawn James, Theatre Studies, 2nd year.

I am travelling to Denmark to work as a tennis trainer for a couple of weeks. My ideal summer adventure is a trip to somewhere new, without many plans, and travelling with close friends so that I have someone to share special moments with.

Discovering new places and not knowing where you might end up is the best, most scary and exciting feeling. Travelling broadens my horizons by getting to know other cultures and myself better.

Distance gives you perspective and makes you realise that your way might not be the only way. That is what really struck me when I moved to Malta from Denmark. Marie Kieser-Nielsen, Theatre Studies, 3rd year.

I am a foreign student on an Erasmus exchange in Malta, so one could say I have been travelling for the past eight months.

My ideal summer trip would be either a trip to beaches in the Caribbean or a trip around Iceland.

Travelling is an essential part of the process of my deve­lopment as a person, akin to my education or anything that helps me grow. Travelling is knowledge – knowledge is making your life easier, more satisfying, more fulfilling, and more open for new experiences.

When I was a teenager I went to a camp in Tarragona, Spain. It was an integration camp where half of the people were physically disabled. I got to know the feelings and the difficulties of those people and felt love for them. It made me a better person.

Since then, I don’t just respect them or offer them my help when they need it, I behave more actively in my society and try to make others aware too. Salvador Payán Pernía, Doctor of Medicine and Surgery, 3rd year.