Personal Narrative: Real America

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“Another” school. How many of you like to travel? Do you travel alone or with group of people? How about go to another country alone? Could you ever imagine to take a plane and fly away somewhere by yourself? Some people get freaked out just mentioning this. They start thinking about all this horror stories of kidnapping, robbery, cheating. However, there is no guarantee that it is not going to happen if you are with your friend. Couple years ago I was no different from those people thinking that way. I didn’t know other life other than New York City. It was the whole United States for me. Of course I have met people from other states, telling me that Real America is outside of New York. I nodded in response, thinking that may be one day …show more content…

I didn’t plan that trip. I just found the cheapest ticket on web site and bought it. I was so excited and scared in the same time. Upon arriving to Fort Lauderdale I found all necessary information on the internet. I spent in Florida five unforgettable days. I was staying in the hostel, couple blocks away from the beautiful beach. I expected that it was going to be a small dark room filled with bunch of people and two level beds. However, it was clean spacious place with four beds, where two of them were occupied by girls from Poland. There I also met other people from different countries who have been traveling alone as well as I. We became friends on the first day. Next day we decided to rent a car and went to explore south of Florida. That was my first experience traveling alone and it motivated me to further travels. For the first time experienced the joys and burdens of independent travel, you will discover the skills, which may not previously suspected. You will bring up the sense of responsibility, you will learn to be alone with yourself and enjoy it. By today I visited fifteen states by myself, including East Coast, West Coast, Alaska, Peru, Germany, Russia, Korea, Middle Asia (such as Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan). For the first time experienced the joys and burdens of independent travel, you will discover the skills, which may not previously suspected. Traveling alone gives you great experience to explore not only another culture, but also explore yourself, find a lot of new friends and get unforgettable experience in your

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