I look out of the trains window as it passes through the vast countryside, leaving everything behind me, the busy city, the stress of education, my parents pushing for me to be something I'm not. They hate the fact that I'm taking a gap year before progressing with university, I'm still trying to figure out what I want to do with my life, who I am and who I want to be. My cousin reached out to me and suggested that I spend the summer with them in their small remote village, the change might help me figure things out. So I agreed and now for the next two months I'll be cut off from the modern world, the phone reception out there is terrible, my uncle still uses a pay phone, I didn't even know there were working ones left, and they still don't have broadband, it will be a complete break from everything,.
I grab my bag and backpack as the train slows to a stop, walking out of the empty carriage, everyone else having gotten off before, no one ever cones here. I step off and see my cousin