Please describe any travel or experiences that have prepared you for the Global Engineering RAP. This can include international travel and study abroad or any travel or experiences within the US that have showed you new perspectives, cultures or languages. If you have not had the chance yet to travel, please share where you would like to travel and why. I moved to Switzerland in 3rd grade. My dad got an offer from his work and he decided to take it, but it meant our family would have to move to Europe. It was an amazing experience, but came with many hardships. I had to leave all of my family and friends, which did not cross my mind at first. Leaving was easy because it did not feel like a real move, it felt more like a trip that we would be back from in a couple weeks. When we actually arrived in Switzerland, it hit me. I would not see my old friends for a long time, and everything was foreign to what I had experienced during my life so far. We settled into our new home and relied on each other heavily. For a while, my family members were my only friends. When I began school there I knew I needed to make new friends. I had to work hard to make friends and keep them. I had to learn to be very courageous as I was a shyer person. Since it was an international school, people were always coming and going. The process of losing and making new friends was never ending over there, which has helped me today to be so welcoming to everyone. It also taught me that I am capable of adapting to any situation; I learned about a new culture, I learned a new language, and I learned a lot about the world that I had never known before. I know how hard it is to start over, so I try to make it as easy as possible for others to do so. This experience was and is so important to me still because it has shaped how I communicate with other people and stay positive even when times get tough.