The most precious thing you can find

by Anna Klueva (Russia)

I didn't expect to find Russia

Hello! My name is Anna, I am 25 and I have visited 29 countries and almost each continent, but my most exciting travel is my life itself. I was living in 3 countries and 6 cities. And the most precious and unexpected thing, that I have found in my life-long travel, is I myself. Me today is a mix of each country and each city I lived, it’s people, it’s history, it's culture, it’s languages, it's cuisine. All of this things is me. Kazakhstan, my first country, has a stunning nature. You can capture here red cliffs, snowy mountains, clear blue lakes, reflecting slowly moving clouds... It has taught me how to see the beauty everywhere and how to live in a harmony within yourself. Kazakhstan is also about freedom: nomad mentality makes you easy-going and felling myself easy to pick up and go. That’s why even today I am 24 hours ready to travel for adventures or even move to somewhere else and to find new facet of my personality. Germany shows me how to be productive and professional, how to learn all life long with love. For me, this country is about accuracy, discipline and philosophy. Thanks to Germany and it's strength I have chosen to become an Architect long time ago. And now it is one of my matters of life, a part of me. Russia is a complicated country, which teaches me how to to be flexible and how to deal even with the most difficult problems. And this is also about the creativity. This country gives me so much creative explosive energy, that I want to share it with the whole world by writing, creating art, playing music, singing, dancing, making scientific discoveries. A lot of world famous writers, artists, musicians, composers and dancers lived here for a reason. I’m straightly convinced, that traveling is the best way to learn yourself by learning others and this is the most important (and unobvious) thing, which you can find in a journey.