It was sometime in December when I posted in my facebook status, “Just received a very exciting news from Germany!” That very exciting news was the acceptance of a paper I submitted for presentation the following April. Right there and then, without knowing how, I said to myself, “I am going to Germany.” During the following weeks, the ways and means of my travel unfold one after the other as I complied all the necessary documents one step at a time. Thus, after having been granted a travel funding by CHED and a travel visa by the German embassy, I found myself packing for the biggest adventure of my life, that of travelling internationally all by myself and presenting my paper to a highly intellectual group of international academicians.