The primary message in this dissertation seems to be that international travel has a psychological affect that reaches beyond just sightseeing. The personal growth associated with traveling can steer a person’s perceptions and careers.…
Travelling has always been a passion of mine. Being an army brat, I find seeing new places, meeting new people and getting to know their different “traditions”, exceptionally inspiring. But having to stay and live at the places I thought I was visiting was a difficult task for me.…
The story begins with my father. He came to America in 2006 for his work. After spending a year, he thought it will be nice for our family to come and live there too. I was fascinated by how diverse the cultures in America was. He enjoyed exploring different cultural foods, desserts, clothes, and musics. Out of all, he liked the education system in America. Unlike Korea, it gave the students more freedom in learning focusing variety of subjects. They also don’t put too much pressure on the students, but give them choices. After consideration, my parents decided to move to America. However, my father was at California at the moment. He chose Virginia for our family because he wanted to go away from the main city where there are more dangers.…
One of the decisions I have made, and it has changed my life enormously ever since, is when I decided to move to the U.S to complete my bachelor degree. I became a different person. A person whose reasoning and rational thinking has developed and thrived rapidly everyday living in different surroundings and conditions. However, I will admit that when I made my decision, I thought, it would be nice and easy to study aboard. The idea of being responsible of everything in my life and completely free to do whatever I want without my parents watching over my head to make sure I’m doing right had not crossed my mind before that time, and that how is my life hasn’t been the same long…
- Travelling unravels the beauties and beasts of an unfamiliar world. It’s a kaleidoscopic adventure with a spectrum of colours. Whether you are letting your palate choose your destination or your unquenchable thirst for adrenaline, it is always an experience that awakens our inner child by offering us new, “first-time” experiences. Ask anyone, and they’ll tell you that the best time they ever had in their life was the trip they took right after graduating from college (if they were lucky enough). I can’t stress enough how important I feel it is for more young people, who have sufficient funds of course, to travel and see the world around them. Start thinking outside the norm a little bit, get out of your comfort zones and start exploring!…
I have always had a knack for traveling. Since a young age I have found comfort in going to places I have never been. Embracing the culture and questioning why things are done a certain way and exploring the incredible world that I am surrounded by. It brings me peace just being somewhere I have never been. I think it is important to be put in situations that you might not be familiar with and learn how to adapt, how to survive on your own. It’s important to go to unfamiliar places and meet unfamiliar people.…
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step,” true words that was once said by Laozi, an ancient Chinese philosopher and writer. The decision of leaving my home country, Egypt, at the age of 11, and coming to the U.S. definitely marks the start of that one single step- education. I knew that coming to the U.S. was a great opportunity for me to get a better education and thus a better future in my career. Even though I was very happy and excited, it was also a very challenging step in my life. Coming only with my father and my brother while leaving my mother and my two sisters back in Egypt was very difficult. The reason that they did not come with us was because my mother had to stay with my sisters who were studying pharmacology there.…
I felt I knew what the trip was about, and challenges notwithstanding, we were going to fly, to keep making progress, and to arrive at our destination. There was truly never a point where I felt we were in serious danger, that we were going to die, or that we would lose the airplane. We continued progressing forward without any anxieties or sense of urgency. We simply moved with a purpose. From my point of view, it was unparalleled. In spite of the problems and complications we faced on a daily basis, in many ways they seemed minor compared to the adventures we experienced and the remarkably pleasant patterns we developed. Challenges filled our days to such a great extent that we regularly joked at breakfast about what difficulties we would encounter that day. Although there was always an issue, they were simply part of what was really a quite pleasing, gratifying routine. For me, the trip provided an extraordinary mix of excitement and calmness. Each day was predictably unpredictable. Any crisis we dealt with was balanced out by the serenity of flying and cruising along in the airplane. I loved it, I just plain loved it. The trip appealed to all the qualities I like in myself and all the activities I enjoy doing. We were constantly going somewhere and solving problems along the way. Our days possessed a Zen-like…
When we finally made it inside to wait for the airplane to arrive, I got to experience all these different people with different nationalities. They all looked so excited to travel and go on a new adventure. Meanwhile, I was sad and confused. I didn’t know what I wanted to do but I knew it had to be done and it was for the best. My mom and I were alone in Miami, we had no one, so one day my mom got depressed and…
First I would not say I had the worst time of my life when I was travelling but it was not the best either. It took me 15 minutes to buckle my seat belt and the hostess was frustrated as she was training me through it. It made me think of myself as being from the prehistoric age and behaving similar to a cave man. Somehow I managed to do it, but I was pretty sure, I did not do it right and did not want to bother the hostess anymore. I assumed she'd had enough for a day. I will never forget my first day in the United States. I was so excited to come here. Arriving in an odd and new nation – conceivably interestingly and most likely all alone – can feel extremely scary and confining. The first airplane ride was quite an experience too. The…
However, that dream is for a later age in my life. I do not wish of traveling alone even though that will be a new and wonderful experience for me. First,…
On the plane, I found our seats and sat down and buckled our seat belts. I had never been on a plane before. When I realized that in a few moment we were going to be on the air, I was nervous. But I had to look calm, for my daughter, and for everyone else. The pilot introduced himself and said that the flight from Santo Domingo to New York was going to take 4 hours.…
Mother Tongue, is an essay written by Amy Tan who was born in Oakland, California and grew up in a home where English was a second language. As Amy got older, she would have to translate and speak as her mother when talking to other people. She thought it was embarrassing at times because her mother’s English could come across a little hasty toward people. Amy Tan wrote this essay because she was an English major who loved English, but she also knew that there were differences in her speech at home with her mom than people she would speak too, out of the home. She wanted to know why her language would change, and drastically it would when her mother was around. I can easily relate to the essay because at my home English is a second language to my parents. Though it wasn’t as noticeable as Amy’s mother, but there were times where I heard my mother have a hard time speaking to people because she could not get her point across. There were times where I had to step in and just say “she means this, not that.” Growing up in a home where English is not the first language to me becomes your first Language because at the home everyone uses it to communicate and show affection with each other, before we head off to school to learn English that we use to speak to the world outside our homes.…
When it was time to board I had tears of joy in my eyes but my heart was sore. I would be away from my family for three weeks. The reality of the situation suddenly struck me and I felt weak at the knees. I was going to a foreign country all on my own for the very first time. My stomach was in knots. I wondered if I would be able to communicate with anyone, would anyone know English. I knew a little Chinese that I had studied at school but would it be enough? I realized with dread that it was too late to back down now. With a false smile and trying to reassure my teary mother that I would be just fine I waved an uncertain goodbye.…
Traveling is one way to be with your own self. It can even open up to many realizations and possible future plans for you. On top of that, traveling can also lead to knowing new friends and possible dates.…