Orly airport, outside of Paris, France. A lonely, scared 22-year-old sat on a bench feeling like she had just made the biggest mistake of her life. Distraught, she barely heard the last and final call for her flight to Yaounde, Cameroon, West Africa. She bolted into action and ran like the wind towards a future unknown and unraveled. On that journey to my first overseas assignment in Cameroon, I felt like I had signed away my life to the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office, trading breath itself in exchange for adventure. Growing up in and around Glasgow, Scotland I had up until that point lived a delightfully provincial, charming, yet small life. Burning in my bones was this idea that there must be “more." But more what? more travel, more freedom, more choices? I just knew something was impelling me forward. I wish that I knew what I know now, When I was younger, I wish that I knew wha