ABSTRACT
Travelling to a new land is the opportunity to meet two realities: the one enabling us to cling to the familiar and the other which takes us towards the unknown. Together they incarnate the two core facets of body ecology which allow an individual to exist: self-discovery and self-exposure. After having thus mentioned that a geographical change is a good opportunity to experience an inner escape, we will highlight why going to another place gives students the chance to forge a connection between their personal worlds and many other cultural worlds. It is our claim that training individuals about the world elsewhere is a responsible and professional act which requires the development of original teaching processes. In order for these to serve the student, the teacher needs to accept and understand that the student undergoing this preparation for the unknown will become an exotic person endowed with a new-found autonomy and indefinite abilities which stretch far beyond an academic qualification.
