GirlGI | Girl Gone International Issue 7 | Page 56

SURVIVE & THRIVE

7. The Travel: What more can I say?
I do not recommend that anyone enter this profession purely for the travel opportunities.
Teaching, (whether internationally or not), takes a dedicated and extremely motivated
type of person. That being said, the travel opportunities in this profession are fantastic!
It’s understandable that if you’re living in the U.S., the idea of taking a trip to Paris or
anywhere across the ocean can seem unfathomably expensive. But when one lives in
Belgrade (as I do!) you find yourself planning to visit your newfound GGI friend in Paris
during your next 5 day autumn break in October and planning a weekend train trip to
visit a fellow teaching friend in Budapest before that, and inviting your friends to join you
for the Christmas festivals across Europe in December. International teaching is rewarding, exhausting and often thankless, but luckily provides built in vacation times which give
us NO EXCUSE to say no to exploring our own backyards, which in my case, is the entire
Balkan region and ultimately, the rest of the world.