What the hell is going on in the mind of some people?!
As I was preparing to leave Belgium as an exchange student (when i was young and free...hum), lot's of people around asked me if I wasn't crazy. USA are like the country of far far away and everybody knows that amercians love to bring guns at school and gangs are all over the place.
First of all, that year was amazing! I won't say my host families were all perfect but at least the first and the third one were! (I guess, my minister of host father didn't like the fact that I'm an atheist...) I don't know how they feel about me but, as I'm concern, they are my american family! At school, I saw less violence than today here at the place I teach and see, I'm still alive!(I don't believe in ghost either...even less in ghost typing a message on this blog!) I wasn't the only female exchange student there! None of us got injured! I promise!
Then I did a few trips.. still by myself... The first one in London and the second one in Barcelona : same old song! London (Barcelona) is a big city, it's dangerous blablabla. Don't you think London girls walk sometimes on their own? Don't you think they go in the tube by themselves? Shopping on your own, walking in the street without your boyfriend,... doesn't mean you're gonna be attacked in your country...why would it be in a foreign country? I'm not saying nothing is gonna happen but let's face it, anything could happen....anywhere!
Last year, I decided to travel on my own to Australia! I'm not gonna say people where telling me it's dangerous as few people know how Australia is exept that they have kangaroos and that's it's the country of surf, sun and ocean... But the idea of leaving to a real far country did make some people question my brain health! I'M FINE! THANK YOU! I guess I've had the best time of my life there and you know, you are never alone on the road! You meet great people who are just in the same philosophy of life. I would never leave my stuff here with people I met a few hours ago, but in backpackers, I never got stolen anything even if it was all on my bed!
Now you're gonna say that I only go in rich countries! But hey, got the same experience when I spent a month in Thailand (not the poorest okay but ...). People can try to talk you into pay for that or that. But as men, we women have a brain and can use it! No kidding! Some have tried with me but if you just answer calmly you can even start to chat with them and you learn even more about the country and it's people. Because travelling by yourself truely is meeting more people.
Don't be scared if someone is talking to you in the street. You can always stop to chat if you see it's going the wrong way but you might meet amazing people.
Maybe it's a bit too long... The world would be a better place anyway if everybody had travel once on their own (for me). A war in that country? a Tsunami at that particular place? If you haven't been there, it's just like a movie you are watching on TV! IBut if you've met the people involved, you don't want them to get injured or even killed. You feel for them and that makes you a bit more human!
Go girls! Don't be scared! Travel!
As I was preparing to leave Belgium as an exchange student (when i was young and free...hum), lot's of people around asked me if I wasn't crazy. USA are like the country of far far away and everybody knows that amercians love to bring guns at school and gangs are all over the place.
First of all, that year was amazing! I won't say my host families were all perfect but at least the first and the third one were! (I guess, my minister of host father didn't like the fact that I'm an atheist...) I don't know how they feel about me but, as I'm concern, they are my american family! At school, I saw less violence than today here at the place I teach and see, I'm still alive!(I don't believe in ghost either...even less in ghost typing a message on this blog!) I wasn't the only female exchange student there! None of us got injured! I promise!
Then I did a few trips.. still by myself... The first one in London and the second one in Barcelona : same old song! London (Barcelona) is a big city, it's dangerous blablabla. Don't you think London girls walk sometimes on their own? Don't you think they go in the tube by themselves? Shopping on your own, walking in the street without your boyfriend,... doesn't mean you're gonna be attacked in your country...why would it be in a foreign country? I'm not saying nothing is gonna happen but let's face it, anything could happen....anywhere!
Last year, I decided to travel on my own to Australia! I'm not gonna say people where telling me it's dangerous as few people know how Australia is exept that they have kangaroos and that's it's the country of surf, sun and ocean... But the idea of leaving to a real far country did make some people question my brain health! I'M FINE! THANK YOU! I guess I've had the best time of my life there and you know, you are never alone on the road! You meet great people who are just in the same philosophy of life. I would never leave my stuff here with people I met a few hours ago, but in backpackers, I never got stolen anything even if it was all on my bed!
Now you're gonna say that I only go in rich countries! But hey, got the same experience when I spent a month in Thailand (not the poorest okay but ...). People can try to talk you into pay for that or that. But as men, we women have a brain and can use it! No kidding! Some have tried with me but if you just answer calmly you can even start to chat with them and you learn even more about the country and it's people. Because travelling by yourself truely is meeting more people.
Don't be scared if someone is talking to you in the street. You can always stop to chat if you see it's going the wrong way but you might meet amazing people.
Maybe it's a bit too long... The world would be a better place anyway if everybody had travel once on their own (for me). A war in that country? a Tsunami at that particular place? If you haven't been there, it's just like a movie you are watching on TV! IBut if you've met the people involved, you don't want them to get injured or even killed. You feel for them and that makes you a bit more human!
Go girls! Don't be scared! Travel!
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