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Post by RangoA@live.com on Jun 24, 2008 12:02:38 GMT -5
 I bugged my brother and the rest of my friends and family that they were all traveling more than me and it was making me angry that hey were even going to other countries and I hadn't ever been to those countries. Finally, my family figured out how to send me to England, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Greece, Austria, West Germany (at that time), Liechtenstein and two other countries that I've forgotten about for the least amount of money and with other college students from around the USA. That's why it was called the International Student Exchange and we found that organization in the student extra-curricular activities floor at YSU. The whole trip was for three weeks and everything was organized and planned out for about thirty of us to go to all these countries in Europe. The people I met were from Illinois, Arizona, Massachusetts, yada, yada, yada. We all met at JFK airport in NYC and we shuffled off in a big jet together for the eleven hour or so trip to Heathrow Airport in London, England. I learned for the first time that Heathrow Airport was the busiest airport in the world. I thought that Chicago's airport was before that. Then, we were all told by our tour guide that all these airports were busy hubs for people to travel and learn other countries' cultural history such as customs, traditions, religions, philosophies and the other subject we were studying in college. We got to the hotel in London and we all shared rooms together and in some countries when we got to the hotels these rooms became co-ed. In London, we weren't allowed to have co-ed rooms for example but in Italy, Switzerland and a couple other countries we visited we were allowed to share rooms with people of the opposite gender. In London, we began the tour of Europe and got to know each other in the hotel for about two days before we set off on that marathon journey. We had all types of social activities in the hotel, primarily planning sessions for what we were about to embark upon. We learned that activities were going to happen very quickly and we needed to have these two days to all get on the same page and stay together as much as possible since we were from the USA and we were guests of these other countries. We learned, as we did in college, to respect, appreciate these countries' and people and to reciprocate with our own culture and history with our hosts.
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I bugged my brother and the rest of my friends and family that they were all traveling more than me and it was making me angry that hey were even going to other countries and I hadn't ever been to those countries. Finally, my family figured out how to send me to England, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Greece, Austria, West Germany (at that time), Liechtenstein and two other countries that I've forgotten about for the least amount of money and with other college students from around the USA. That's why it was called the International Student Exchange and we found that organization in the student extra-curricular activities floor at YSU. The whole trip was for three weeks and everything was organized and planned out for about thirty of us to go to all these countries in Europe. The people I met were from Illinois, Arizona, Massachusetts, yada, yada, yada. We all met at JFK airport in NYC and we shuffled off in a big jet together for the eleven hour or so trip to Heathrow Airport in London, England. I learned for the first time that Heathrow Airport was the busiest airport in the world. I thought that Chicago's airport was before that. Then, we were all told by our tour guide that all these airports were busy hubs for people to travel and learn other countries' cultural history such as customs, traditions, religions, philosophies and the other subject we were studying in college. We got to the hotel in London and we all shared rooms together and in some countries when we got to the hotels these rooms became co-ed. In London, we weren't allowed to have co-ed rooms for example but in Italy, Switzerland and a couple other countries we visited we were allowed to share rooms with people of the opposite gender. In London, we began the tour of Europe and got to know each other in the hotel for about two days before we set off on that marathon journey. We had all types of social activities in the hotel, primarily planning sessions for what we were about to embark upon. We learned that activities were going to happen very quickly and we needed to have these two days to all get on the same page and stay together as much as possible since we were from the USA and we were guests of these other countries. We learned, as we did in college, to respect, appreciate these countries' and people and to reciprocate with our own culture and history with our hosts.