About emmapocock
When I was 12 I decided to devote myself to being a marine zoologist. I wanted to travel on boats, and find myself looking at Earth from a different terrain. I researched all I could, I watched shows about marine life and emailed everywhere whilst making manic notes about algae and dolphins and endlessly compiling lists of destinations I wanted to visit.
Four years on from this in 2012, I was deciding which A Levels to pick and somehow wanted to actually BE David Attenborough, so picked Biology, Chemistry, Geography and English. Little did I know that I was sewing the seeds to set myself up for adventure. Geography and English Literature took me all over the world in the space of two years – whether through analysing worlds of fictional tales, or through studying Earth systems in all their different magnitudes.
In these two years I visited Ypres on an English trip and collected memories of the past. During a Geography field trip I visited Snowdonia and chased geographic processes taking place in the present by reading the scars of glacial migration and climate change. I was hooked and inspired by these subjects that – to me – showed that you can be anywhere and everywhere all at once. I was learning about so much more than a textbook could tell me by just examining places, and to me this education through immersion in another culture or landscape is the most important thing about travel.
I am nineteen years of age, and I have recently moved across England to find adventure in Cornwall. I am studying English Literature and Geography at University of Exeter’s Penryn Campus and now see that all this time I have been an aspiring travel writer.
This is the story of my Universe day by day – where I go, how I see the world, and how each detail affects me. Maybe I’ll make you smile, maybe I’ll teach you something you never knew – or maybe I’ll teach you something you’ve known all along.
