Say that instead of living in the 21^st century I now lived in the 18^th century. Given my age and the time it took back then to travel any considerate distance, I would have been at the least very hard pressed to have achieved traveling as much as I have nowadays, if it wasn’t already impossible. Not only would it have taken many years (or at least months) to simply get over to the place I was visiting but it was of also cost huge amounts of money to get there. So unless I was best friends with the King or my father was a governor or something, I wouldn’t of been able to afford it either.

Obviously back in the 18^th century they didn’t have computers or the internet, so I wouldn’t be able to wright about my adventures like I am now. However around the end of the 18^th century  some intelligent person invented a telegraph  line this would of allowed me to be able send  small messages some distance, proving that that then invention a) made it to Australia and b) again it was very, very costly  and I probably couldn’t of afforded it.

What was a more likely way of me writing the equivalent of a blog would be writing a diary. However this means that only the people who I’ve met and bothered to show my diary would know about it. Another way would be to go around a tell people verbally, but this in its self would mean more traveling, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing just more time consuming.

Given the fact that I would be living in the 18^th century and people were expected to die young, traveling probably wouldn’t help that. I would have probably gotten some life threatening disease gone back to Australia given to half the population which was about 100 back then, killed all of them and died myself. So on that cheerful note I’m going to end this post

So now that I’ve spoken about where I have been; I'm going to write about where I want to go .

I spent three years of my childhood in Darwin and through that grew a connection to Indonesia. It also would like to go there because a) I learnt Indonesian at high school and have been dreaming of going there since year seven to use my skills and see some of the amazing things the only Indonesian culture has, in person.

I really want to see more of the Mediterranean part of Europe such as Greece, Spain and Italy. These places interest me because each of them is original and the way some of the older of less tourist driven cities is very, very pretty.   Recently my parents travelled (without me :’( ) to that part of that world, and would tell me, when they called, just how much I would love it there  which made super jealous cause I was still stuck at school.

I’m not sure where else I would like to go but im sure that when I come up with a few more places they will be equally exciting and beautiful.

America is what it seams

When I was younger I used to travel everywhere with my parents but over past years I haven’t.  The first time I went overseas without my parents I was 11. Although parents were in the same country at the time I never saw them until I got back in Australia. Last year I went to Sweden, Norway and Denmark, without my parents. While I was over there I met some of the most amazing people ever, and I am still friends with them today.

I also went to America at the beginning of the year, again without my parents, but with a group of kids my age from Canberra. When I was there I spent a 10 days with a host family. It was kind of what I expected which is  strange because I was expecting kind of like what it’s like in movies, even though everyone says it’s not.  Everything that happened seemed so unrealistic or what happens in movies.  One thing that I found hard whilst I was over there was the time I had to be at school every day… 7:30 in the morning! I’m hardly out of bed then. And every one at school looked flawless!

What was wonderful though was the price of everything. I was super cheap and probably explain how everyone there could afford to look so good every day.  But seriously, some of the prices for things were messed up. The one time I went to Mac Donald’s over there a small drink was $1.50 but a large was $0.78 (and you have to pay exactly seventy-eight cents, none of the rounding up business). Irrespective it was still a brilliant trip and I wouldn’t trade it for the world.

Most people my age are lucky to have gone overseas once. I however have been to around 10 different countries (some more than once) in the last six years alone. I think that it’s sad that some people refuse to travel overseas because they don’t see the point or because they think that they will die from a terrorist attack or a plane crash. By traveling overseas not only do you get to see how different cultures do things differently to you but you also see just how similar they are to your own.

My parents have always travelled and were keen to get me and my sister to travel as well. The first time I went overseas I hadn’t yet had my first birthday. But I have just travelled overseas; my parents have taken me and my sister around Australia, sometimes in unusual ways.  I hope that I can continue this as I get older and more independent. 

As I mentioned before , the first time I went overseas I wants even one,  and obviously I can’t remember it so I don’t  really count it. The first time I remember going overseas I was 10, we went to England and I remember that I started to count down the weeks from like 30 weeks before we left.  The funny thing is I was so excited during the time that we were there that I’m not even sure what countries and cities we went to. I know we went to England, Sweden, Norway and the Netherlands    but we went back to the U.K.  But I’m not sure where. We could have been in France for all I knew.

Now that I think about it, had my sister and I been two years younger or older we probably wouldn’t have gone, because two or so weeks before my mum, my sister and I left; my dad went to France to walk around Mount Blanc with some firendsand then joined us in Amsterdam (the Netherlands) and quite literally as soon as he joined us, mum left to go to a conference in Germany or something. So really my sister and I were only there because my parents already needed to be over there and were too nice to leave us at home!