Our trip to Patagonia lasted about three weeks, and it was a mix of beautiful places, exhaustion from long journeys, and above all loads of fun with the other exchange students. We saw places that, until then, I had only known from photos — and I’ll remember this trip forever.

In Puerto Madryn, we walked among penguins, and it was unbelievable. One penguin walked right across the path in front of us, and we just stood there with our phones in our hands, filming. No one even spoke, because we were all thinking, is this really happening? They were incredibly cute and acted as if they couldn’t care less that a group of excited students were standing right next to them.