-First thing you need is to be a little crazy.
-Second thing not overthinking too much.
I don't know what I was thinking about when I signed in in CS. Maybe my hippie soul was awake at that time. At first I thought it was kind of creepy because a lot of people were talking to me without any reason. The good thing is that I wanted to practice my italian, so I started to talk with this italian guy just for fun you know. But sometimes life gets a little bit more interesting and you may join. So, after 1 or 2 weeks this guy would invite me to his place. An 18 year old girl, is she crazy? Hell, yes. XD. It's so sad that girls have to be very aware and careful in the world we live, but it is what it is. It seems like I didn't care very much because I said : " I'm coming !! " . So I took a bus for 5 hours ( I have to say that at that moment I was an au pair, so I wasn't even with my family ) and arrived to this place in Italy where I've never been and where I just knew this guy from CS. Our way from the bus station to his place was 1h drive. It was also an 1h of speaking italian for the very first time in my life. In this trip, I asked to myself a hundred times how crazy am I and I said to myself a thousand times how cool this is. I spent a whole weekend with this guy, I met his family and his friends , I saw his small town, we went to party...I had a completed trip and I only spent 1€. After that experience, I decided I wanted to do couchsurfing again, it's so cool how you can meet people from other places, share each other's culture and explore a place not like a tourist, but like a local. And feeling like a local is the best way to travel. You see the real face of the new place you're in. Nowadays, I'm still in touch with my italian friend, and I think that weekend was awesome.
So guys, if you tell me traveling is expensive, it means that you don't want it bad enough. There are a lot of ways to discover new places but of course be aware (more than I am) about where you are going, luck is not always with us (but I hope it doesn't leave me alone).
I leave you the lovely breakfast I had in that trip 😛
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