What was your excuse for going abroad?

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Hey guys,
I am planning on doing LL exactly 13 months from now. I have my money saved up. I am just waiting to graduate university. I live with my brothers and sister and my parents live abroad, however we keep in touch constantly through Skype etc. My question to you Is what do I tell my parents when I go abroad to do LL. I am planning to say I am travelling but i dont know if it wiLL work out. What did you vets do?

Ps I will be telling my brother the truth that's it.

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Backpacking adventure.

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Expect that you need to share a lot of pictures and stories if you will tell them that your'e backpacking.

Wouldn't it be easier to just tell them that you're visiting a friend and work at a restaurant for a couple of months? Nothing fancy

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You could always say you are part of a study regarding patient life in hospital ..

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Have to fix Knee valgus.

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study new language

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I was thinking of using backpacking. The problem is I will have to send them lots of pictures and tell lots of stories and when I am in frames I don't know how creative I will be. I feel like I will run out of things to say.

Patient study abroad.  That will not fly at all with my parents.

Neither will working in a restaurant abroad while visiting friends considering the degree I am about to get and past work experience I have.

I m stuck :/

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Quote from: TrueSpartan on March 28, 2016, 02:16:10 PM
Neither will working in a restaurant abroad while visiting friends considering the degree I am about to get and past work experience I have.

I m stuck :/

That's perfect, you're there to get work experince. You didn't manage to get a job in your own city so you saw a facebook articel that a "US-company" (or what ever country you're from) did recruit workers in "LL-city" , so you could get both sun & work for cash.

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Quote from: TrueSpartan on March 28, 2016, 02:16:10 PMI was thinking of using backpacking. The problem is I will have to send them lots of pictures and tell lots of stories and when I am in frames I don't know how creative I will be. I feel like I will run out of things to say.

Patient study abroad.  That will not fly at all with my parents.

Neither will working in a restaurant abroad while visiting friends considering the degree I am about to get and past work experience I have.

I m stuck :/

better to take lots and lots of picture around the city before you do it LL Then you can "update" your facebook page or whatever every day using 1 or 2 pics

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I would be less worried about what I tell them what I was doing overseas more than the fear of being called out by my family members and friends when I returned home. That for me is the thorn in my side that would hinder me to not do LL. For example if you have to attend a funeral or something and you have a large gathering of family, friends in a single location and  BAM! "Hmmmm, you, uh, got.....taller?" 😐  😓