Chesterfield student Rachel Newton has just returned from a life-changing visit to the world’s highest capital city – Quito in Ecuador. Here she tells all about her remarkable summer…
I’M AN 18-YEAR-OLD FROM CHESTERFIELD and I will be starting my degree in Spanish and International Relations at Swansea later this month. This year, after finishing my A-levels at Brookfield, I decided to do something different over the summer. In fact I decided to travel halfway across the world to work as a volunteer in Ecuador in South America. This was a big step for me as it was my first time travelling alone and also the longest I had ever been away from home.