Una’s Blog

When I try to think what my wildest dream is I find it difficult. This may be because I feel that I am expected to write something completely amazing; something so strange, or original, or impossible, that it is unlikely to ever happen, no matter how hard I work.
For me, my strongest wish (I’m not sure I can use the term wildest dream) is something quite simple: I want to travel. I want to live (and work) in different cultures. I want to experience as many different ways of living and more importantly, of thinking as I can. For me, the way I learn and develop is through experience and collaboration with different people, and different ideas. Each person has their own perspective and their own history and context, which it is most probably based on. Learning another language (another way of thinking) and immersing myself in another culture is the best way I can think of to (and I apologize for the cliché but I can’t think of another metaphor) broaden the horizons of my mind.

Living in this time of ‘globalization’ it seems obvious that one of the main things we need is to develop open minds and collaborative thinking, not just tolerance. The first country I have on my list to visit is Guatemala, a country very different from my own… and from there? Who knows…