He didn’t just leave home he carried it with him in recipe notes, old photos, and the echo of familiar voices. Studying abroad didn’t hand him a polished transformation; it handed him burnt biryani, empty wallets, rejection emails, freezing winters, and the kind of loneliness no brochure warns you about.
But it also gave him wins: learning to stretch a few pounds into a week of meals, turning a friend’s idea into a startup pitch, finding
He didn’t just leave home he carried it with him in recipe notes, old photos, and the echo of familiar voices. Studying abroad didn’t hand him a polished transformation; it handed him burnt biryani, empty wallets, rejection emails, freezing winters, and the kind of loneliness no brochure warns you about.
But it also gave him wins: learning to stretch a few pounds into a week of meals, turning a friend’s idea into a startup pitch, finding