Travelling in Tune: Bonding on the Road through Music

Wanderlust Unleashed: A Leap into the Unknown

“Before I had an account, I would go to Workaway and just search random countries and be like (gasps) OMG! This is a possibility, or this is a possibility and so it has always been my plan to do Workaway after I graduated, but then we graduated into a pandemic… a couple years after we graduated we were finally able to do Workaway!” 

A Budget Traveller's Best Kept Secrets

“Workaway is definitely our main goal when we go to places. We find a Workaway and then go there..and THEN we decide what we want to see in the country…Travelling on a small budget, Workaway has made it really simple for us to be able to go somewhere and not have to waste time on figuring out where to go next cause we learnt from local people where’s the best places to go, or how to get around or how to feel safe in a certain place.” 

Embracing Local Life Beyond the Tourist Traps

“Most of the time, we enjoy being able to have a home base and not living out of a suitcase all of the time and being able to create a community. And so that's why Workaway has been our number one thing… We always try to stay for at least a month with a host.”

“We like to be able to have a homebase and from there really get to know the locals, get to know people who understand the country in a deeper way than we do, and then travel out of that.” 

Self Growth and Learning through New Experiences

“We were able to learn soooo much, I learnt a lot about myself, my relationship with my mind, my body and the world around me, just because of the people that were there and the environment. Also while you’re building a mud house… all you do is put mud on a wall and you’re sat on the other side of the wall with other people that you talk to for hours and hours and hours - it breaks down a lot of barriers, and a lot of internal processes were redefined during that time.”  

“I think that was really amazing in a different way. We stayed with a family, and their living room was all made of glass and we could see the mountains and the lavender fields, and they had a wood burning stove and we would farm all day. It was definitely the most peaceful I could say that I’ve felt in my life…Every morning we would get up and do yoga, make breakfast, read a book… It was simple living but it was sooo good and I learnt a lot about appreciating quiet. We had a lot of really good times with them and they were really nice and it was a really cool way to understand Turkish culture. And it's been so long since we've lived with our parents, we called them our mum and dad!”  

Bridging Cultures and Building Skills through Volunteering

“Some of the most valuable skills and observations are setting boundaries and building skills. We have witnessed really cool ways and impactful ways of setting yourself out for success, like addressing conflicts as it arises, how to make people feel comfortable in their own skin, and then building community with each other.” 

The TikTok 30-Day Challenge: Bonding Through Creativity

“We had so much time! When you have so much time, they say ‘boredom breeds creativity’ so we just had a time that we made a song about metal, takkis, puppies.”

“I do feel like people from home felt more connected to us because they were able to see what we're doing everyday; they’re seeing us building mud houses, making new friends, so we tried to keep doing song videos. We kind of fell out of it and did random travel videos, but it was a fun way to keep engaging our friends from home with our 30 day challenge. I feel like when you put challenge on it, it becomes a whole thing!”