[JohnnyB]

I often think it's a little sad that people see travel as a kind of timeout from their life paths instead of opening up whole new possible life paths. Too many people think of travel as "get out of Canada for a bit, party and then come back to the 'real world'". There's no reason that you should look at life in your home town, or where you went to university, or Canada or even North America as the 'real world' and where you're bound to. If your thinking is a little more open to the possibilities the world has on offer, and you can be interested in exploring them you can find a life full of friends, rich experience, success, fun and travel all wrapped together, but you need to think bigger than what most people around you in any given place are thinking. Possibilities seem distant until you take a few chances, then you realize the risks you took were actually small and you discover a broader range of options than you had before. You've got a degree from a university in a respected Western country, and you speak one of the biggest languages in the world. Don't doubt that opportunities exist, even if they're not immediately apparent.