About Me

"I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world."

- Mary Anne Radmacher

What started as an unexpected adventure

My name is Malak and I am a 25 year old Danish/Arab - born, raised and (partially) living in Copenhagen, Denmark. I graduated back in 2016 and today I hold a Master degree within marketing, business communication and English. I've been working with HR and recruitment during the past 2 years.

In 2015, I married my best friend and together we want to travel the world.

Back in 2013, during my Bachelor degree, a friend of mine and I, decided to apply for taking a semester abroad. At first we couldn't decide on where to go, but we were both sure that we were going somewhere. First we checked out London, which was probably our consideration based on location. England was close to home and had a, what we at least thought at the moment, - a familiar culture.

I think it was the weather conditions, but I'm not sure - but somehow we started checking out universities in the states. It wasn't easy imagine traveling so far, but we knew if we were gonna travel so far we could get better weather, which I guess is why we ended up in California.

In April 2013 on the same day of a massive school shooting in California, we recieved an email from a university in San Marcos. With unimaginable joy, we started planning and preparing for a whole semester abroad, in HOT, exotic, and beautiful California.

Growed into a lifestyle

When we came home after six, amazing, challenging, scary, perfect months, my passion for travel was born. I was only 20 at the moment and I felt like I just discovered the unknown. Not that this was my first time traveling, but it was definitely my first time traveling to the unknown, unfamiliar and on my very own.

Later in 2014, I visited Italy for the first time, went to explore and see different beautiful cities in Turkey and took a christmastrip to Berlin with my best friend. In the following year I got married and my Husband and I began this amazing life together with one goal - Travel as much as you can to wherever possible.

Det der startede som et uforventet eventyr

Mit navn er Malak, jeg er 25 år gammel - gift med mit livs kærlighed. Vi er begge født og opvokset i Danmark og har begge palæstinensiske rødder. Vi bor i København hvor vi ellers bruger vores tid, når vi altså ikke er på farten..

Som uddannelses baggrund besidder jeg en kandidat i marketing, kommunikation og engelsk fra CBS fra tilbage i 2016 og har sidenhen arbejdet med rekruttering. I dag sidder jeg som IT-rekrutteringsspecialist.

Tilbage i 2013, under min bachelor - besluttede min studiekammerat og jeg at tage et semester i udlandet. En beslutning jeg aldrig nogensinde har fortrudt. Det var svært at beslutte hvor hen vi skulle afsted, men en ting var vi enige om - og det var at vi skulle afsted.

London, var den første beslutning. Det var trygt og tæt - så hjemve skulle man ikke bekymre sig om. Jeg tror vejrforholdene var den afgørende faktor. Vi begyndte at undersøge det amerikanske marked for universiteter og kiggede egentlig kun på områder med garanteret vejr - året rundt. Ingen tvivl på hvorfor valget landede på Californien.

I april 2013, modtog min veninde og jeg en email fra Cal state San Marcos universitetet i San Diego Californien. Det var en suveræn mail - for det var en accept til optagelse for deres efterårssemester 2013.

Her begyndte hele vores amerikanske eventyr og alt det hårde arbejde der ellers ligger i at planlægge et udlandsophold på et halvt år.

Blev til en livsstil

Da vi kom hjem efter seks ikke mindst lærerige, men oplevelsesrige tur - blev min passion for rejser født. Jeg var 20 år på det tidspunkt og jeg havde følelsen af at have opdaget det ukendte. Det var begrænset hvor meget jeg havde rejst inden da, men uden tvivl min første rejse alene så langt væk og i SÅ lang tid.

Senere i 2014 kom jeg både til Italien for første gang, af flere omgange til Tyrkiet og Tyskland.

I 2015, giftede jeg mig med min dejlige mand - der heldigvis havde samme passion for at rejse og opleve verden. Lige siden har vi rejst og besøgt lande med knap et par måneders mellemrum.