Paper 2: Activity 1

When you're young you commonly have a young and unconquerable spirit. You have the energy and the will to do new things and explore new experiences. Youth is the time were we, young people are able to learn from our actions, and naturally when we become a certain age we begin with these curiosities. The ways youths take care of these curiosities are really different, and sometimes we take a wrong path like alcohol, drugs or sex, but there are other paths as sports, hobbies and traveling. When you're young traveling is something you always have on mind -at least in my case- because you open your mind and soul to other culture. I had this opportunity and I will never forget it. This opportunity to open your mind that traveling offers is something unique because traveling is a way to explore new places and try new experiences.

I went to Flint, Texas last year and that really open my mind. If you’re wondering how travel can open your mind just think this: you usually move in the same places everyday. You have a schedule that usually never changes. You have a kind of routine for doing homework. You always have something to do or at least that was my case. The opportunity that traveling offers me was breaking that routine. When you’re in other place you visit places you don't go often, you don't have a routine so you can appreciate things lot better. Also you may have less thing to do and this lets you enjoy the things that happen around you. You can enjoy and try to understand how the local people lives, shop, and also how they have good times. This experience is very unique.

Other thing that help me open my mind and have a really, really good time was trying new experiences. I went fishing for my first time, and it was amazing. The villages where we were staying were kind of a sport facilities so they have a mini golf, tennis fields, basketball fields, volleyball fields and they even have their own marina. Having all those things around certainly help you to get busy, and it was really fun. We play a lot of games with mi cousin, we went fishing all day long to lake palestine and we even have the opportunity to lear how to cut a fish and how to prepare a good meal that in my country is called: “Ceviche”. But I have to tell that the place was in a rural place, it was around like 3 hours from Dallas and it didn’t have many places to go shopping. These make us move and know different places we finally stayed at dallas the last 3 days of our trip.

Traveling when you’re young is a positive activity that can touches you and moves you but more important it can gets you an open-mind and new experiences to consolidate you character and temper. It’s also fun and answers the desire or curiosity that we young people have about other cultures and other ways of living. I would strictly recommend you to give it a shot. Travelings is something you wont regret and it gives you the opportunity to learn something new, something that may help you to become the grown up you’re meant to be.