I'm a 21-year-old girl who has already travelled quite a lot for her age. My parents showed me a whole world since I was just 6 years old and even if I was that young I instantly fell in love with travelling but most of all with languages. My native language is Italian and of course one of the richest and most famous languages in the world. But this wasn't enough for me, that's why I started to study English practically by myself and the resources I had around me. Once I've started the university it's been easy for me to decide what to study: foreign languages. English of course was my first choice, and right after this I challenged myself with russian. So, that's why I'm here to write about my life as a traveller...because right now I'm in Lavia for my Erasmus and I had the need to share what's going on in my life with the people who have my same passion.
The beginning of my journey wasn't easy at all. Once I got to the city with a friend of mine, the hostel which was waiting for us was HORRIBLE. I've been traveling quite a lot and I've seen several places but I've never seen such a creepy hostel. It was at the very top of a building (without lift, but later on we discovered that here in Riga people don't really love lifts). Once we got into bedroom we just had a glance to the beds and to the sheets on the bed. They were totally black. Luckily we weren't alone, there was a latvian girl with us who decided to bring us to her home at least for the night. The day after I had to fill in a lots of papers for my Erasmus
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