World of Wilson

Before you start, just know that this is a very long read, I wanted to put all of my memorable stories from Rio de Janeiro and how I ended up there in one post and it turned out to take a whole week for me to finish.  Just 2 months after I graduated from high school, I went to Rio de Janeiro to volunteer with Edumais, an NGO which focused on teaching English to children from underpriveliged backgrounds. It was an incredible experience and I can safely say it was some of the best two months of my life. It all started when I was in my sixth year of high school, I felt that my school put way too much pressure on its students to get accepted into university and go off to uni straight away. I thought that aged 17, I'd be way too young to go to university, I wanted to challenge myself and see the world a bit before going to university. I had decided to take a gap year so I could have the time to travel the world, I wanted to do volunteering in Latin America because I woul...

First of all, I'd like to say that this is a travel blog. Normally I write about incredible experiences across the world, however I feel that I should take the opportunity to write about the current situation as it is one of the most historically significant occurrences of my lifetime. One day people will wonder what it was life to live during this time, so testimonies like mine must be preserved. However, this is my objective testimony and I'm not trying to sensationalise the situation. Please understand that this is from my perspective, I am a normal 19-year-old student from Scotland. I understand that this situation is different for everyone depending on their surroundings, I'm not trying to tell people that social distancing is a complete breeze and should dry their eyes and I'm certainly not saying that it's incredibly difficult either. It started with Serpentza talking about the danger of a new disease in China, I googled it and there was next to no...