Studying Abroad in Hong Kong, as a first gen female!

Sadhana Cheemal Start Date: Oct 24, 2025 - End Date: Feb 20, 2026
  • Hong Kong

My Travel Story

by: Sadhana Cheemal Start Date: Oct 24, 2025 - End Date: Feb 20, 2026
I’m twenty. I don’t have it all figured out. But I want to try.
I want to walk into places where I don’t know anyone.
I want to make mistakes.
I want to learn what the world actually feels like, not just what I read about it.

This trip isn’t about luxury or escape. It’s about growing up.
About realizing how big the world really is and how small I still am.
About stepping into something new and letting it change me, not softly, but fully.

And Hong Kong feels like the center of that change.
It’s fast. It’s bright. It doesn’t stop for anyone.
The skyline looks like stars that decided to live closer to the ground.
Every street has its own rhythm, people moving, deals happening, ideas forming in real time.
It’s a city that never waits for you to catch up, and I want to feel what that’s like.

I want to live in a place where the future doesn’t feel distant. It hums in the lights above you, in the sound of trams and neon, in the conversations that mix languages and dreams.
I want to study business and technology not just from behind a laptop, but in a city that is technology, that breathes innovation.
To see how finance connects people, how creativity drives progress, how the smallest ideas can scale to something global.

And it’s not just Hong Kong.
I want to see Beijing, to feel its history and strength.
I want to walk through Shanghai, to see how fast a city can move, how ambition looks when it becomes real.
I want to stand in these places and feel what progress means, not in theory, but in motion.

Being there would shape how I see the world and how I see myself in it.
It would give me the kind of perspective that can’t be learned in a lecture or a Zoom class.
It’s about growth, real, raw, uncomfortable growth that only happens when you’re far from home, trying to find your footing again.

Your support would help me take that leap.
To see, to learn, to listen, to build.
To feel what it means to be alive in a world that’s changing every second,
and to bring that energy back with me.
  • Hong Kong