Classmate profile Final draft

Frantically searching through his pockets, Edwin Lopez' ticket was nowhere to boarding his long gone train heading to Busan, Korea.

In the following seconds, Lopez had to act quick to decide on the way to get back to his international travel group.

He then decided to jump on the first train that was departing to Busan--a 50/50 shot of meeting up with his classmates.

This was one of many predicaments that Edwin has encountered while travelling internationally.

"I gained an interest in travelling in 2013, whilst visiting my cousin in London, it opened up my wanderlust for traveling," Lopez said.

Lopez holds traveling as well has photography close to him, with each complementing with each other as his hobbies.

Tokyo, Japan was one of those places where he was fortunate enough to capture a variety of interesting shots to his photo collection.

"One of my favorite films is Lost in Translation and me and a few friends managed to sing at the same karaoke bar that was in the film," Lopez said.

As Lopez would leave to these travels, his mother would also tell him, "Make sure to bring back me a souviner,"Illiana Lopez said.

Another incident of Lopez' while traveling was in a more recent trip to Spain with his cousin.

"Me, my cousin, and a group went for a hike up in the mountains of Spain and I somehow got seperated from them with me being lost for more than 3 hours until I met up with a family who gave me water and rations.  I eventually made myway back but came back with major sun burn all over my body especially my neck, it sucked so bad," Lopez said.

Lopez then attempted to enjoy the rest of his time there with a skin peeling sun burn for the next week or so.

"I try to make an initiative to travel outside the country at least once a year and get as much photos as I can, it really gives me a lot of insight to the world  and a breath of fresh air from the grind back home," Lopez said.