Hi. I’m Sara. I’m going on a one year trip around the world.

Most people take a gap year after school or an exchange semester in university. Well, guess what I did? None of that. I went down the career path only to wake up one day and realize: you’re only 21 years old and you’re already sick of this. So instead of bitching and whining about it (or rather “additionally to bitching and whining”) I decided I’d get out of this rut by travelling some parts of the world for a whole year. I still haven’t decided exactly which route I’m taking, but I’ll figure it out soon enough. You can be part of this plan, and you can be part of my adventure on the road.

Who is S?

S, that’s me. My real name is Sara, but that’s boring, so I go with S. I’m 21 years old, and I am currently living in Berlin. I love Berlin, and I’m pretty sure that I’m coming back here after my trip to spend the rest of my (young and modern) life. But for now, I need to get out of Germany and into the wild.

What’s so special?

Nothing, really. Most people take on an adventure like that because they want to enlighten themselves about the world and who they really are. I won’t lie- I have thought about masking this all up in some romantic excuse of wanting to be free and whatnot but I’m really tired so here’s the deal: after a couple of years of work I realized that this shit is tiring. Being grown up and having to think about career stuff, I mean. If this is going to be the rest of my life, then fuck it, I want to get out one last time before I rot in the corporate (or family) world.

But: as boring as it sounds, prepare to be stunned by my idiocy. Seriously, I’m a socially incompetent idiot. And I trip. A lot. And I don’t mean only in a metaphorical sense, people know me for hitting my head or my shoulders or my toes all the time and scream out in rage. Plus, I’ve never been backpacking before. Wait, I’ve never even as much as slept in a tent. I am a spoiled brat- this is my challenge. Watch me fail miserably.