Eighteen

<p class=ql-align-justify>An Australian turns <strong>eighteen</strong> in Poland emerges into womanhood travels breathtakingly and finds first love.</p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This is the diary of Jennifer Phelan </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>written in 1998</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> during the year she lived in Poland as a </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Rotary Youth Exchange student.</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>  In an era before universal internet or mobile phone availability Jennifer used her hand-written </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>diary</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> to record the challenges of living away from home in a new culture and a new language.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>With an eye-watering sense of adventure Jennifer discovers the joy of </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>travel</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> both within </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Poland</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and across </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Europe</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>.  Her motto of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Do it be it live it</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> permeates her approach taking her away from her innate shyness into an independent </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>young woman.</strong></p><p> </p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Jennifer also</span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> finds love</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> giving us a candid insight into her emotional turmoil.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Keenly observant and philosophical and interspersed throughout with relevant quotes from Shakespeare Keats pop songs and more this work was written with you the reader in mind. It is a work of a maturity beyond her eighteen years. </span></p>