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10 Unexpected Ways Travel Rewires Your Brain! Why You’ll Never Be The Same Again…
Science Says Travel Changes Your Mind And Here’s How It Transformed Mine!
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The first time I moved abroad, I thought I was just changing my location.
I didn’t realize I was about to reprogram my brain.
I landed in Ukraine in 1999, armed with a suitcase, a handful of Russian phrases and even less in Ukrainian.
I also had the naive assumption that life abroad was just like life at home, only with towering Soviet apartment blocks and weirder snacks like Suhariki (basically crutons) and dried fish.
Within a week, I was dodging manholes (with and without covers) like they were landmines.
Navigating grocery stores felt like a bad game of “guess the ingredients” since I couldn’t decipher a single label written in Cyrillic.
Oh, and then there was the soul-crushing horror of trying to order food at restaurants, only to discover that half the items on the menus were made up just to create the illusion of choice.
My first lesson as an expat?
Adapt or go home.
