And The Winner Is….
I know you lot all get got been eagerly waiting to hear who has won my circular the populace giveaway…and today, the hold off is over.
We got thousands of entries together with it was actually difficult to narrow it down. It took me a lot longer to read the entries than I originally idea together with it took fifty-fifty longer to narrow downward a winner. There were a lot of expert submissions but, inwards the end, at that topographic point tin live alone i together with I had to alternative a winner.
And that winner is…
Heather T. from California.
Heather, 26, attended Carnegie Mellon University equally a Materials Science together with Engineering major together with currently industrial plant equally a Senior Consultant for IBM. Inspired yesteryear the life together with dice of her mother, she decided to start treating her life alongside urgency. Heather filled her gratuitous fourth dimension alongside singing, salsa dancing, scuba diving, amazing friends, together with equally many adventures equally she could fit in. At twenty-six, she’s of late applied to grad schoolhouse thus that i day, hopefully, she’ll live making a departure alongside an advanced grade inwards Public Policy.
In her ain words, hither are 10 facts virtually her:
- I’m a scuba diver
- My sis is 10 months younger than me. For i month, every twelvemonth nosotros are *technically* the same age.
- I brand homemade artisan H2O ice cream inwards flavors similar sour cream, mango jalapeño, together with sweetness potato.
- I earned my grade inwards Materials Science together with Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University earlier taking a project inwards Business.
- I’m used to moving only about a lot. I’ve moved to a greater extent than than 20 times (I’ve lost count). I went to five simple schools 1 middle school, two high schools together with iii colleges.
- I’m learning Spanish. I’ve ever loved the language. Growing upwards inwards LA I was surrounded yesteryear it together with ever wanted to learn. I’ve been taking lessons but I’m excited for to a greater extent than hands on experience!
- I’m extremely allergic to cats together with strongly dislike them. Technically allergic to dogs equally good but I’m a domestic dog lover thus I don’t remove heed thus much!
- I haven’t eaten fast nutrient since I was 16. I saw Super Size me inwards high schoolhouse together with gave it upwards instantly. Soda too.
- I reject to store at Wal-Mart.
- I get got a huge family. My dad is i of five together with my mom was i of 14. And I get got nine siblings.
She’ll live leaving side yesteryear side calendar month together with we’ll live getting updates from her journey. Heather volition live starting inwards South America earlier heading over to Africa together with then Southeast Asia together with looping dorsum to Europe earlier grad school! I’ll characteristic her each calendar month to portion what she’s been upwards to!
Here is her winning essay:
At 16, after 10 years of separation, I met my mother. She had previously been incarcerated inwards federal prison theatre together with I barely remembered her.
My woman bring upwards was wild together with warm. One time, she picked me upwards wearing brilliant greenish shoes, blueish pants, a blood-red top, together with her pilus newly dyed regal at the roots. Puzzled, nosotros stared at her.
“Mom, what are you lot wearing?!” nosotros asked.
“What? My shoes tally my pants, my pants tally my top, together with my elevation matches my hair.”
In Jan 2015, she was given 3 months to alive when she was diagnosed alongside Stage IV thorax cancer that had metastasized to both breasts, lungs, liver, bones, spine together with brain. My woman bring upwards was tough, thus she lasted viii months. I saw the pang of regret inwards her eyes that alone comes from a life unlived. She ever waited, believing at that topographic point would live to a greater extent than fourth dimension to fulfill her life.
My woman bring upwards had the ability to brand anyone express joy together with she could utter anyone into almost anything. She taught me to alive to a greater extent than together with get got risks. Over the vii years nosotros shared, she became my best friend. We talked every day. She completed a business office of me I never knew was missing. She was the most remarkable individual I’ve ever known. Even after all the hurting inwards her life, she knew how to notice joy inwards life together with she taught me to produce the same. I am thus thankful every 24-hour interval that she flora me together with saved me from who I was becoming.
I experience cheated most days over the brusk fourth dimension I had alongside her. When she passed, something awoke inwards me. Six months after she passed, I took my showtime trip abroad. I visited Kingdom of Spain alongside my sister. Four months after I spontaneously traveled to Republic of Iceland together with got scuba certified thus I could dive betwixt the continents inwards 0°C water. Two months later, I got an unexpected suspension from work, thus I traveled to London, Paris together with Geneva on a whim. five countries inwards i year. I was on a roll. Earlier this year, I took a solo trip to Republic of Colombia together with inwards a month, I am headed to Berlin, Prague together with Budapest. Travelling is at nowadays my favorite hobby, particularly solo travel, which gives me the chance to suspension out of my shell.
Each 24-hour interval I experience chained to the project that I worked thus difficult to earn. I dream virtually taking off together with travelling for an extended menstruum of time. This trip would live the perfect chance to produce so. I would portion my adventures through move blogging together with photography. I mean value my perspective equally a unmarried woman individual dark traveler is largely missing from the move blogging domain.
Life is brusk together with beautiful together with I desire to brand the most of it. I would much rather get got my woman bring upwards hither on this earth, but inwards her absence, I’m glad to get got learned how lucky I am to get got the adventures inwards forepart of me.
I promise this challenger inspired you lot to get got action, conception a trip, together with dream big. I want you lot good on your futurity travels together with promise my majority How to Travel the World on $50 a Day helps you lot larn how to move cheaper, better, together with smarter!
Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, together with Happy New Year!
As this is the final ship service of the year, consider you lot inwards 2018!
– Matt
P.S. – I’m hosting a meet-up inwards Bangkok on Christmas Day! Let’s select grip of drinks together with utter move Follow the Facebook event for updates.
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