Travel experience

This last March, for spring break, I traveled for the first time without my parents to Ireland. Two family friends of mine, who were University of Portland seniors at the time, and myself hopped on a plane Saturday morning to fly 12 hours to Vienna ,Austria to spend a week traveling the country and celebrating St. Patrick’s Day. As a freshman in college, adjusting to life on campus can be rough when a lot of us are used to having our parents, or some other guardian, take care of us while we’re at home. But coming to college and moving away from home gives us a little taste of the independence we’ll have for the rest of our lives. When I told my parents I wanted to go to Austria with my two friends, they were nervous for me. They asked questions like: What if she gets lost? What if someone steals her wallet? What if she misses her planes? All these ‘what ifs’ were simply that though, just concerns preventing me from an opportunity to obtain freedom. When we finally ...