Laura – On burial grounds and life in Zambia: ‘It’s normal to hit a worker there’ | Names

Until then, the woman who had traveled to 44 countries and had not lived in Lithuania since the age of 19 returned to her homeland after the coronavirus pandemic. Here he worked in one of the most popular restaurants in the capital, organized events and engaged in its entertainment activities. Soon after deciding that a comfortable life does not promote the growth of her personality, Laura decided that she wants to study as far away from Lithuania as possible, according to the press release of LNK television.

“I opened the computer, entered international universities and the first one was thrown out in Zambia, and I chose it,” Laura told the show “Bus Visko”.

The woman admitted that when she reaches a limit in her life, when she feels that she is no longer growing or improving, she changes everything fundamentally without waiting for anything. However, not everyone could set such a challenge for themselves.

Laura is a traveler by nature. Having just finished school and enrolled in engineering studies at the Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, the woman gave up everything for love and followed her then-fiancé to live in Northern Norway. At that time, Laura was not frightened by polar nights or working in a fish factory.

Unfortunately, love was not destined to last long. Having gone their separate ways with her lover, Laura decided to go on a life-changing trip around Asia, where in one year the young woman experienced as much as others never experience in a lifetime.

She first visited Sri Lanka, followed by a weekend dream vacation in the Maldives, and then flew to India. It was in this country that the real adventures began.

“I am one of those people where it is very difficult to surprise me. I’m really not afraid of poverty, dirt, nothing, but when I was in India for the first two weeks, I wanted to cry,” the interviewer revealed on the LNK show.

Laura started her trip with two other friends, at the beginning none of them calculated their budget, the experienced travelers they met even joked that the girls wouldn’t last so long, but after a few months the situation changed. Driven by the thirst for adventure, the girls repeatedly made the strangest decisions, alternating nights in luxury hotels with sleeping at the bus station, and planes with hitchhiking, buses and trains.

In the beginning, they chose only first class tickets, but once they decided to take a 27-hour trip across half of India in the cheapest local coach.

“It just so happened that we ended up in the same compartment with the chickens, and as if that wasn’t enough, we had to share one seat with the three of us during the entire trip,” the woman shared about the challenges of the trip.

Varanasi, the city of death, probably left the biggest impression on Lithuania. There, a woman dared to bathe in the holy river Ganges, where babies, pregnant women and animals are buried. In 11 months, Laura traveled to 9 countries, rode a scooter around the entire coast of Vietnam, saw Thailand and Laos.

After returning to Norway, Laura decided that she wanted to try life in the big city, so she moved to London, and when the pandemic started, she returned home.

The woman, who has been studying hotel and restaurant management for a year in Zambia, not only enjoys the fabulously beautiful nature, but also works. Laura ran a hostel for travelers for a while, became friends with the assistant mayor of the capital and became her assistant. Laura revealed the hard-to-understand work culture in Zambia for Westerners.

“Employees kneel before me, and raising your hand to the employer is a very normal thing,” Laura shared about cultural differences on the “Bus visko” show.

The Lithuanian woman said that she was secretly friends with her employees and even brought them food, but she had to play tough with her employers. By the way, the most difficult thing for the woman was to watch when the owner of the hotel began to beat the chef because she did not give vitamins to her puppies. But according to Laura, it is very normal in Zambia.

“Bus Visko” – Tuesday at 8:00 p.m. through LNK.