Like a scientific field report, communicate to readers the condition of the land, flora, fauna, natural resources and little-known struggles or helpful resources the landscape provides. If you are working as a conservationist in a place, or were working in an animal sanctuary, interview the people in the community, or nearby village or city, to see how they treat the landscape, such as trying to stop pollution. Include photographs of the landscape, and specific plants and flowers, in your report.
Construct a journey report on the people you have met, interacted with and interviewed. For instance, if your journey took place in a country where you do not speak the language, first tell readers how you either learned the language or worked with translators to ask and answer questions from local residents. Concentrate on a specific group of people in your report to make the focus clear, allowing your reader to absorb the people and your relationship with them. If you worked to build a hospital in an impoverished country, first talk about the people you met who helped you and your team accomplish your project. Write a separate report, or extension journey report, on the patients you met who entered the hospital and the conversations you had with each.
Describe how the adventures you had on your journey were either life-threatening or just brought you out of your comfort zone. Include photographs, quotes and notes throughout your report, capturing struggles and triumphs. Perhaps taking the flight from Sacramento, California, to Beijing, China, was the first adventure, and one of the most life-affirming. In your report, describe how the adventures changed you, made you see your life, and the lives of others, in a refreshed way -- if, for example, in Beijing you encountered the beauty of the arts and theater there but also saw how young people struggle to live up to society's high social standards.
Describe in your report the steps you took to accomplish your goal in your journey. Start from the beginning, telling your proposal for the project, such as offering psychological therapy to residents in a town severely damaged by a tsunami. Talk about the trials and errors you encountered along the way, and how your determination got you support from psychological institutes and the local community's team of health-care providers. If you conducted interviews with the patients before working with them, or got their permission to release information about their tsunami-related struggles to the public, share these in the report. Also include how you feel the project overall benefited or did not benefit the public.
