“I am Italian” When you go abroad and you meet new people for the first time, there is always this “get to know each other” and that is the sentence I always use to introduce myself. I come from Italy and like a lot of people like to say “there…

Where do I even start? 2020 was a lot. …in terms of global events in our world — protests, presidential elections, covid — I think we can all name a few. …

(This is series 2 of my trip to Senegal, Africa. For the first series, refer here) Good morning! 🔆 I woke up in our hotel, Le Kenkeni in Senegal, Africa, looking forward to the activities planned for the day. For breakfast, we had a wonderful selection of ‘rainbow pancakes’, presumably…

The 40 degrees celsius weather was piercing through me as I got onto the bus — not that it made much of a difference — inside the bus was hotter than outside, because of the close to twenty people all squished into this one small white ‘box’. …

Sadly with all the mainstream ideas, pop culture, and also the international background I grew up in, I often sense that I lose myself…who am I? What do I like? And what do I find important in my life? And most importantly do you look into the mirror and find…

Aren’t there some moments in your life where you just wish the person who has in some way negatively affected you, can also experience the same thing — first-hand themselves? …

Our world has become less and less honest and authentic about any given topic — where we constantly see ‘conformities’ to the popular way of doing things or the one and only correct way of portraying ourselves. This is not only true of our external portrayal of ourselves, but this…