RESFEBER- (v)

Swedish for a longing to travel; a desire to experience new things; anticipation for the unknown. 

Day One; 06/01/2019

Already preparing for my four months abroad in London, I decided to cut my winter break short and embark on a ten-day seminar to Scandinavia.  The seminar focused on sustainability and environmental justice while traveling through Sweden, Norway, and Finland along with twenty other students.  Day one consisted of traveling from JFK to Heathrow and then to Stockholm, making it an almost full twenty-four-hour commute.  Finally arriving in London along with students from a seminar headed to Ireland, we discussed the key and intertwining concepts of our trips.  The trip I was embarking on was designed to teach students about sustainability and environmental justice specifically, key issues involving climate change, resource governance, and sustainable development.  As many of us know, climate change is a huge issue (whether or not you think its real [it really is real]) due to how it affects the humane race, our planet, and the others who inhabit it.  How we deal with the effects that we have on this earth relates to environmental justice since it is essentially the fair distribution of environmental benefits and burdens between countries and peoples.  As an eco-tourist throughout this trip, traveling to a total of four countries (including England) and taking ELEVEN flights overall, I was, in essence, a very unsustainable tourist considering the vast amount of carbon emitted by aircraft.  Leaving London and heading to Stockholm, I began to grasp what these terms meant and how they would relate to my ten-day adventure throughout Scandinavia and the Arctic.