Ah mais oui! Un bon idee! SUPER BONNE!!!! Well that's all the French I'm dealing with now. So. Wordpress has come up with a 2011 challenge: posting every day. Wow, dudes, I do that already [except when on vacation]. So I'm just going to use their prompts for a post a day as well as my other posts! So. The topic for post number one, drumroll please...
List three countries you’d like to visit, and why you want to go.
[I'm doing 6 because they're sort of in groups of 2. 3 groups of 2.]
Argentina: It seems colourful, and beautiful, and full of culture! It's also the most developed country in South America, and I think it would be a great place to start off South American adventures! And Buenos Aires is the home of tango, which I think is a beautiful dance.
Bolivia: It's like the exciting opposite of Argentina. It seems sort of grey, and cloudy, and maybe a little chilly, but I imagine people there smile a lot. That might just be my own imagination, but I hope it's not. I just have this picture of a smiling old woman with a weather-worn face, and crinkly brown eyes, and hands that tell a story when I think of Bolivia.
Kenya: My daddy grew up there, and I want to see what it's all about. The landscape brings tears to my eyes when I see it, because I know that my dad grew up in this vastly different, yet extraordinary place.
Rwanda: It's a place that has suffered so much devastating loss, but has risen above it. I was watching Long Way Down with Ewan MacGregor and Charlie Boorman, and they were talking to this young woman, and they asked her if she was Tutsi or Hutu, and she just replied that she was Rwandan. I also want to see the gorillas. I love me some apes.
Bhutan: It's the only country to measure Gross National Happiness. It fascinates me.
Nepal: I want to do yoga in Nepal. I want to see the monasteries, and see how Hindu and Buddhist culture intermingle. I also want to hike to the first base camp of Everest. Or at least you know... see it. Oh and I want to make a prayer and hang prayer flags in Nepal.
As you can probably tell, each of these countries is on a different continent, in moderately unexplored corners of the world. Most people think "France, Mexico, Fiji" or something to that affect when they think of traveling, but I want to meet people from a wide variety of cultures that are as far removed from my own as you can get.
