Rina Gencher

Hey guys! Welcome back x Let me just start by thanking everyone who has reached out to me since my last blog post. You truly do not know how much your words of encouragement have helped. But also thank you to everyone who has shared with me their experiences while travelling.  It's amazing how quickly things can change, and how quickly you can do a complete 180 in terms of your emotions. It's also amazing what a little intoxicated thinking will do (because that's what you do at a hostel isn't it? You get intoxicated?).  The girl who is sharing my room is absolutely lovely and last night it seems we met a large majority of people at the hostel. I went from feeling alone to feeling like I had friends in the course of 24 hours. It's interesting how quickly things can change.  In terms of my trip being over sooner than I thought, that still won't change. Originally I wanted to spend the whole 12 months of my visa in Australia, but I'm quickly re...

Hey guys, welcome back. Thanks for sticking with me in my long absence. Luckily I've gotten my introduction post (On Being Afraid...And More) out of the way, so I can jump right into the fun shit.  Turns out it's way harder than I thought it would be to blog without a computer and access to reliable internet, but none the less Im back to give it a shot. Unfortunately all my beautiful pictures of Edinburgh and London are on my camera and I don't currently have any way to get them onto my phone, so those detailed posts will have to wait for another time. I will give you a short overview however.  Edinburgh was amazing. It was super old and super gorgeous. I stayed in a hostel right next to the castle which was clean and had free tea, coffee and hot chocolate (along with milk and sugar) for the guests. They also offered activities in the evenings, some of which were free and some you had to pay for. I went on a free spooky tour, led by Australian David (he insisted we...

     When I think of the emotion I'm most comfortable with, my answer would have to be fear. Reading that over I can understand how that might be confusing, since fear is  not  a comfortable feeling. Some find fear to be motivating...I am not one of those people. I have been fearful most of my life. I was scared I would fall off my bike, so I never learnt. I was scared I would fall on the ice, so I refused to learn how to skate. Regular experiences most people associate with childhood and think of as normal experiences, I missed out on because I was scared. When I got diagnosed with an anxiety disorder in my early teens, my mental health took a turn for the worst.      It's hard to explain to people what it's like living a life in constant fear. It's debilitating. I couldn't leave the house, I couldn't go to school, I couldn't see my friends. I didn't graduate with my class. I didn't leave for university when all my friends did. I felt like I was...