Volunteer trip to Congo

Lehlohonolo Hlohlongwane Start Date: Jan 12, 2025 - End Date: May 11, 2025
  • Educational/Research Trip
  • Vacation/Personal Trip
  • Volunteer Trip
  • Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Rwenzori, Uganda
  • Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo

My Travel Story

by: Lehlohonolo Hlohlongwane Start Date: Jan 12, 2025 - End Date: May 11, 2025
  • Educational/Research Trip
  • Vacation/Personal Trip
  • Volunteer Trip
My educational focus, leisure, and eventually, vocation all centered around travel. During college, I studied foreign languages, made friends with international students, read, and learned about foreign countries, worked at an international Girl Scout camp in Germany and began exploring, on my own, some countries in Europe. Each international trip filled me with excitement, contentment, and a desire to travel more. In no time, I developed wanderlust or Fernweh, a German word that means an ache to get away and travel to a distance place.

Travelling for leisure is very good for you, as I will explain later in the article. It’s not always so easy to separate the desire to travel and the effect that travel has on you. The effect of travelling is very often the desire to travel more.

Travel takes us out of our comfort zones and inspires us to see, taste and try new things. It constantly challenges us, not only to adapt to and explore new surroundings, but also to engage with different people, to embrace adventures as they come and to share new and meaningful experiences with friends and loved ones.

Travel gives us our greatest stories, our most cherished memories and countless irreplaceable learnings that we can choose to pay forward to others. It teaches us about ourselves and each other, it broadens our horizons and, just like a reset button, it forces us to refocus on what really matters.

Travel takes us out of our comfort zones and inspires us to see, taste and try new things. It constantly challenges us, not only to adapt to and explore new surroundings, but also to engage with different people, to embrace adventures as they come and to share new and meaningful experiences with friends and loved ones.
  • Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Rwenzori, Uganda
  • Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo