January homework #2



my favorite place to go is the beach 



1)I travel to experience new things and to learn. Sometimes i go for family or just for the fun of the thrill but i mostly travel to experience new things. In some ways this aligns with lyer's essay but in other ways it does not. For example he says travel helps people be "able to to return at moments to a younger ... self" while i beleive that traveling makes me grow up a little and mature more with the experiences I face when I travel.
2)I think the quote means that you have to be more open then you normally would in their every day life. Because in order to experirence what you are seeing rather than just seeing it you have to be open to what life throws at you. This relates to me by my knowing that as long as I go with the flow of life the trip will take me to amazing places and I will remember it for the rest of my life but if I choose to not have a positive attitude and have fun I'll just be on the trip and not living it to the fullest. The same thing goes for my everyday life.
3)I think that sometimes the adrenaline that fear gives a person the want to do things they normally would not do. so if we apply this to our trip we can know sometimes we need to go out of the norm to have more fun then normal and to make it a memorable time.
4)I don't believe that it is a travelers resposibility but it would be a nice thing and a good thing to do to show the other people what it is like in their country but I don't think that each traveler has a "resposibility" to do so.

I want to travel to Africa extreemly bad

5)"And even as the world seems to grow more exhausted, our travels do not, and some of the finest travel books in recent years have been thoes to undertake a perellel journey, matching the physical steps of a pilgrimage with the metaphysical steps of a questioning, or chronicling a trip  to the farthest reaches of human strangeness." this is my favorite quote because I find it completely true. no matter how much the earth has encountered people who like to travel still are compelled to travel more and more.


january homework #1

20 hour plane ride...:/

I like to talk a lot and meet new people. I am very social and I smile and talk a lot obviously. I am a cheerleader at Grayslake North and all of my classes are honors or advanced placement. Next year i will be taking three AP classes and the rest will be honors except my electives of course. :)I like trying new things and exploring places. Although i am not excited about riding on a plane for about 20 hours i am excited for the whole experience. My best friend is Lexa Koepke and i have learned a lot of things from her since she went to china last year. I think this trip will be loads of fun and I'm super excited.

1) I signed up for this course to learn new things about places I have never been and for the experience of being able to travel across the world. I also did to see things that i probabally wouldnt be able to see in my life if I didnt have this oportunity. I want to hear the accents and learn their culture, like what they do everyday. I want to see how different it is there from here because knowing how different it can be in other states just thinking about how different it will be in another country.

Fish!

2) I hope to learn about the history of australia and i want to be able to learn what their culture is like and how different it will be. I also want to learn what type of food they eat and things like that kind of just random facts about australia and the people. I also want to learn about the Great Berrier Reef, like the fish and plants that live there.
3)A lot of things intrest me about australia and new zealand but like what i said before its mostly the atmosphere that i want to experience the most. Also all of the wonderfull animals and things that we do on a whim that arent planned are what interests me.
4) I think that if we learn a little about where we are going it will help us to understand what we are experiencing. Another thing makes sence with it is that if we are trying to blend in a little most people in australia and new zealand know their history and such so that might also help.