3 Life Lessons from My Decade Abroad
6 min readApr 22, 2022
About 11 years ago, I packed two 20-kg-ish suitcases, hoped on a flight, and moved across the world, alone. From Dar es Salaam, Tanzania to Leysin, Switzerland, I was extremely excited to embark on what I thought would have been a short term adventure. After all, that’s what most people I knew did — they left Tanzania for a couple of years, eventually returning for good, with pockets or bags of experiences and stories to…