Traveling Is The Last Thing Essay

It was the fall of 2003, a cool and cloudless California morning. My parents, who dressed me up with a polo shirt and khakis, waited patiently for the school bus as I looked fearfully at what was going to happen. I didn't want to leave my house, nor did I want to go to school. I was a shy boy, who didn't like doing anything but staying at home and minding my own business. When the school bus finally came, I climbed on to the yellow bus and looked outside fearfully as my parents waved goodbye. I was too scared for the first day of school, which helped me shape the person I am today. Throughout my life, I've been to different places, from Oklahoma to a whole different country in a different continent miles away. During that time, I was able to shape myself with the cultural experiences I got through being in a multicultural environment,

It is a common idea that traveling gives people a greater insight on the dynamics of the world as they experience different cultures and ways of life. This can be seen in the short story Wedding at the Cross by Ngugi wa Thiong’o where traveling greatly influences the main character Wariuki’s outlook of the world. Wariuki starts off as being a very poor but very happy man until he gets humiliated by his father in law, Douglas Jones, for not being wealthy enough to pay for a wedding at a church or provide for his wife. This ignites a fire in Wariuki to prove his Douglas Jones wrong and he goes to great lengths to accumulate enough wealth to become higher class and not be looked down upon. The great lengths that Wariuki goes through to try and

Unfortunately I see this conversation ending with Celeste and Jim both very upset and no solutions to the conflict being discussed. It seems that at the end of this scenario the conflict was beginning to spiral out of control, and communication was shutting down. It will end with Celeste and Jim blowing up at each other and not being willing to understand the others perspective about the situation. They will not talk for a while after this happens and Jim will hire Nikki as he intended to from the beginning. As a negative end to this conflict I see Jim and Celeste looking back over the conflict still trying to defend their position (retrospective goals).

Since coming to America, I have moved to an ample amount of places because my father’s job concerns. I changed school frequently and in each new school I was never greeted with a warm welcome. With one glance my classmates saw I was different from them. I was often bullied and teased because of my racial difference from my classmates, from these experiences I became a quiet and docile girl. This way I thought I would not get in anyone’s way. I had closed up in the world in front of me; I never expressed my own opinions and always agreed with the majority. However secretly inside of me, I was frustrated not being able to express myself and yet I was unable to change. I craved to be what I was in the inside to be on the outside. Still by

Stepping out of my first plane ride, I experience an epiphany of new culture, which seems to me as a whole new world. Buzzing around my ears are conversations in an unfamiliar language that intrigues me. It then struck me that after twenty hours of a seemingly perpetual plane ride that I finally arrived in The United States of America, a country full of new opportunities. It was this moment that I realized how diverse and big this world is. This is the story of my new life in America.

When we were traveling to America we faced many difficulties, but once we made it to our Aunt's house in Virginia we knew it was going to be a great, yet grueling experience. When I first started going to school it seemed as if I was on another planet. Everyone looked different, spoke a strange language, and had a distinct mindset then me; the life of a kid should seem easy because there isn’t anything to worry about, yet worrying about everything was my coping mechanism. When I entered middle school depression and anger hit me like a freight train, so much to the point where I almost committed suicide. Fighting my so called friends for “fun” and not caring about my future was my life for those

In Amanda Machado’s article: “How Millennials Are Changing Travel,” she argues that due to seeing people’s retirement being wiped out, young people have realized that they cannot trust putting off seeing the world for late in life. This, coupled with the fact young people have little opportunities at home, has led Millennials to choose to take longer and more meaningful vacations than the previous generation. Millennials not only see traveling as a break from their boring home-life, but as an opportunity to reflect on their future, bolster their education, and better understand the world. Being one of these “Millennial travelers” I can identify with many of the arguments the author makes. For the entire 2014-2015 school year, I was studying

Having been to so many countries, my standard is no longer confined to the town of 27,000. In Wilmette, there is no poverty, little to no crime, and not much diversity. Through traveling, those experiences challenged how I saw myself, my hometown, and my thoughts. Traveling has opened my eyes to and shaped my view of a different world than the privileged one I live in.

The first thing Goins talks about is traveling teaches you to live an adventurist life. This is true people can live more freely and explore the world while they are young. Goins said in his article that he hiked a Mayan ruin if someone were to do this when they are older they would have a more difficult time doing this compared to someone who is young. He also said that taking the risk of traveling well you’re young inspires other to step out of their fear and go travel. This is true people see their friends out traveling the world well they go to school or work every day and they wish they could be that person traveling and having fun. Seeing other people travel really inspires other to take that risk and travel the world.

“My love for traveling started in first grade. My family and I went to France for two weeks and my mind was blown. First of all, the idea of flying on a plane for half the day was scary. But once we landed, the fresh French air filled my nose and from then on I knew I would cherish the new experiences.”

Imagine getting away from the monotony of your everyday life. You can lie on the beach sipping a cool drink miles away from your worries of getting a paper done or helping a customer at work. You can be on top of a mountain overlooking beautiful lands that are different from your own backyard. Half of the class has taken a vacation less than five times in their lifetimes, but let’s face that most of those probably included those little family vacations to Disneyland. But, all of you said that you planned to travel someday. So, why not do it sooner than later? One of the reasons for not traveling that many of you put is not having time because of school or work. Also, one of your major concerns is

Can travelling be merely a change in motion and place? While moving around to other places does open up new discoveries, it is also able to open people’s hearts and minds to change. In My Life on the Road (2015), Gloria Steinem writes about how travelling on the road from childhood to the present day has impacted her lifelong career. Huck Finn’s perspective on society changes as Mark Twain’s novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), progresses. Although in one instance the character goes from a sedentary life to one of constant movement, and the other from a life of movement to one that is temporarily sedentary, the change in motion and maturity prompts major changes for both Huck and Gloria. While the authors did write their

I have been fortunate enough to have been given the opportunity to travel a handful of times now and having just got back from a three week trip to Iraq -I can assure you the experiences that traveling unfolds are life changing!

Traveling around enabled me to communicate with people from different backgrounds. Through the schooling and homeschooling system I was lucky enough to learn about people and their cultures. It was through these communication that I began to understand that, people who didn’t look or have anything in common with me, weren’t all that different. It was then, I started to realize that I found new appreciation for the variety of life that surrounded me.

The world is a like a book, and traveling is like the reading the unturned pages of life. We travel to distant places on earth to learn, love and teetering into the unknown in order to know where we truly belong. We delve ourselves into the world of wilderness to explore and feel the essence of nature close to us. And, the one who do not travel read only a single page of the book.