While I scroll through the countless pictures freshly taken from the USA, luggage still unpacked and sitting in the dining room next to my mother who’s cooking up a well-missed home cooked meal, curtains descend upon one of the best chapters of my life. It’s been three months after I left for the Work and Travel programme, I feel a …

There’s this film I watched during Literature lessons when I was 15; Dead Poets Society. It is about an unconventional teacher who taught a class of boys about Carpe Diem. Loosely translated, it means to seize the day and live life in the present. It struck me hard, the message behind the film, but I never did seize my day. …