Twenty something year old doing twenty something year old things

Traveling, everyone says, changes you in some way. You come into contact with other cultures, other people, new ways of thinking and push yourself out of your comfort zone. Now home after 9 months of flirting with South East Asia, 7 months of which were in a committed relationship with Vietnam, I am being asked by many people: "do you feel different?" , "how did it change you?" These are both questions that I find incredibly difficult to answer--the truth, as they say, 'is in the pudding.' This means that I am a delicious sweet treat and to know if I have changed, I must be gobbled up. My insides, my very core, sampled and treated like a delicacy. Which it is. I imagine a mixture of condensed milk, ginger, spring roll and a generous dash of rice wine to garnish. A fine cocktail of predominantly Vietnamese flavours. A heightened 'sense of self' however is one sure fire result of traveling, particularly solo traveling. You are your own best friend, o