2 posts tagged “travelling”

Grahh I'm back.. It was a lot of fun as always, but I was ready to come home and actually do some laundry and take a really good shower after ten days of nonstop camping/river swimming. My family's great though. Humboldt orientation was pretty cool, too, though I didn't really talk to anyone. My cousin Alexis and I were hanging out, and we're alike in the fact that we both don't say something unless we have to.

One thing that sucked was on our last night of camping, I lost my camera. Keeping in mind I've never really had anyone close to me die before, it was a really devastating loss. Even though they're just things, the things I care about tend to take on a personality in my mind, and I feel the same sympathy for them as I do for people at times. It's nuts, but my camera was like, one of my closest thing-friends. I loved it.

Anyways, I had some awesome pictures, but I lost them. Oregon is officially evil when it comes to my cameras. The two rolls I took there last year came up blank, and then this year it took my camera alltogether. I used to like Oregon, if not only for its salt water taffy, but I don't think we can be friends anymore.

Today I was doing a little light research on studying abroad in college, because I'm sick of never having been anywhere before and I want to really know that when I'm choosing to live in California or even in the US for that matter, that it's really the place for me. (Since there's no way in hell I could remember enough to go to France, it'd probably be somewhere like Australia.. or the UK, or other English-speakling countries. Just in case you were wondering.)

So I found this list, and I had to share it because it's so retarded I lol'd - literally. Look at #9.

1. Travel while earning college credits!
2. Try new foods.
3. Learn a new language, or put a second language to use.
4. Experience first hand different cultures and customs.
5. Increase personal confidence/pride-in-self by surviving in a different environment.
6. Looks good on a resume.
7. Become more independent.
8. Improve communication skills.
9. Gain a higher appreciation for the United States.
10. Become more ready for the ever-increasingly globalized business world.

Like going to other countries is going to make you realize how much they all suck because obviously the United States of America is TEH BEST CUNTRY EVAR.

Yeah, and according to Firefox, globalized isn't even a word either.