Texts about Travelling

Gaby (USA)

Topic: Travelling is the greatest thing in the world!! Everybody May Learn Having Fun I really love travelling, and I am sure that pretty much everyone does. Travelling for me is a way of relief. It is the part of the year when you get to know other people and other places. It is when you know vacations are there supporting you, and you don’t have to see the same people and teachers every day. When we travel, it seems that responsibilities are forgotten for a while, and we can have fun. Here in Montevideo where I have lived for almost two years now, there is not much to do. Oh well, maybe there is actually, but I am used to another type of living, especially on the weekends, and only when I travel I get to do all the things I don’t have here. For example, when it is summer all people here get to go to the beach at Punta Del Este which is a city thirty minutes away from Montevideo, an d when summer arrives, and we are there, it seems everything is just good. Plus, it makes me remember Brazil which is the place where I was born and raised, so much. It is awesome when my family and I go there. Apart from the entertaining part, I think travelling is one of the best ways one has to learn other things he or she has no ideas of. Other cultures and languages, for example, are the most interesting part of a trip. All people that have travelled, at least once, to a country where its first language wasn’t their first language, have had some fun trying to communicate. Cultures, as I mentioned before, are also cool. People can learn having fun. Tourists don’t even have to go to museums, tourists’ sites, or historic monuments. They can simply learn things taking a walk to the nearest coffee shop and see what people are wearing and what they eat. Also, they may just speak to other persons, ordinary people on the streets, and find something out. When talking to normal people, in a new place, one can find out what is that they do in that place. What a typical tourist gets to see and do is very different than what the people there really experience. I understand that maybe people don’t realize it, but just going around the neighborhood, we can find many typical things of the place, and learn from them. I think nobody will ever have a better opportunity to learn (the real things) than when travelling. Also, when travelling with family, all members are closer to each other. I think that is very important because nobody is really happy if he or she doesn’t have the support of his or her parents. Travelling is a great way of accomplishing that. People grow together when they experience something as extraordinary as travelling. Plus, you don’t learn from people and about people only when you are travelling with family, but when you are travelling with friends as well. I personally think that there is no better way to get to know people th an when you pass the whole day with them, being with them from the moment they wake up till the moment they go to bed. When you are travelling, you tend to spend a lot of time together with friends and family, and consequently you will discover many personal things about them, knowing them better. Once, I traveled to the U.S. I was 10 at that time, and I barely knew English and neither did my family. I was at my cousin’s room when my uncle called and asked me, the biggest one between my sister and my cousin, to ask the receptionist for some extra pillows. I had no idea of what they were called in English. Still, I did remember one thing. I remember watching “Shop time” which is a channel that sells random stuff in Brazil, and they were selling pillows. However, they were special pillows for people with back problems and they were called contour pillows. Then, I called the hotel reception and asked for those. I thought all pillows were called contour pillows. The woman didn’t understand a word I said, and she didn’t bring the pillows to our hotel room. Later on that night, the woman found me walking around the hotel’s hallways and asked me if what I was asking for that afternoon were pillows. I was so glad that she finally understood me. Luckily enough, my uncle was able to sleep with some extra pillows that night. I had such a good time those fifteen days I spent with my family. Plus, my anecdote is an excellent example of how one can learn things just by calling the receptionist. People should really enjoy trips when they are into one.

So, to conclude, I would say that people should open their eyes when they are in a different atmosphere. Parents, for example, would never admit that maybe taking a walk to the park with their little children would be a good class for them. Kids, in their majority, are always watching everything. I am sure that a little 9-year-old girl would never forget the first time she went to Europe and saw a ll that old building structure, or maybe when she tried to say hello to a friend in Spain, and he or she said “hola” back to her. Life provides us with such beautiful things, and we most of the time don’t realize that we don’t need too much to learn something. Gabriella Barreto Uruguayan American School Montevideo, Uruguay Virtual High School www.govhs.org November 23rd, 2005

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