I don't want to be one of those people who go on obnoxiously about their travels around the world. All I have to say is that my trip to Germany was one of those experiences that you don't forget. I wish I could write in detail about the people I met. That's what it comes down to, the people. No matter where I am in the world, it is the affect people who surround me have and how they determines the experience I have. Traveling is more than some luxury vacation, to me it is a way to learn. I don't want to be at a beach, sipping sweet alcoholic drinks from fancy glasses decorated with fruits and miniature umbrellas, instead I would rather split a pitcher of beer at a pic-nic bench talking with new and exciting people.
I want to explore a country, not only see other the cultures but learn about them. The best thing about my last trip to Germany was the people who came from all over the world. They all grew up differently and came together in this one city to improve or learn German. Tübingen, Germany, is where I stayed for that month of August, the best feeling was near the end when that city half way around the world from my hometown started to feel familiar to me. That familiar feeling you get when you are around something for a long enough time that it stops feeling odd and starts to feel like another home. Part of me likes this feeling because no matter where I am I know that feeling will settle in and that place will become home. In the other hand that feeling is unsettling, for familiarity gets boring, and that feeling that makes me want to leave and explore some place new. I finished my first semester of college, the university is now familiar to me, and I am starting to get restless.
Saturday, December 29, 2012
Tiny Travelers
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