My first airline travel wasn't until I was 18 and fresh out of high school. I answered a classified ad in our local paper, looking for "Students Working Abroad". I learned so many lessons that summer, working on a beach in the South of France, selling donuts and drinks. My travel agent didn't mention needing a passport, that my flight was leaving at 3pm, not 5pm (which she assumed from the 24 hour clock noting 1500 HRS departure), that no one speaks English in France, that the students that I was to meet on arrival, had moved on to Germany to pick grapes, or that the beaches on the Mediterranean are mostly topless! It was an adventure! It was a maturing season, and it was an incredible lesson that, "I am always being supported and that all things are working out in my favour".