Participant #2



Participant #2

Dear Friend,

It’s been a long time that I have not talked to you. I am not sure if I told you that I took a year off to go around the world on vacation.

My fiancé Alberto and I decided to take this vacation now before we get married and find a real job. We bought a pass to go around the world. We will start in the USA where we are living now. We are going to visit some National Parks, as well as the east and west coast. While we are traveling in the USA we are going to visit some friends that we have not seen for a long time. We are also going to Alaska to experience the outdoors’ wild life. Alberto loves to fish and he always wanted to visit Alaska.

Then we are going to take off to go to Canada. In Canada we will try to practice our French. We will take a French class and a Canadian History class to learn about their culture and history. The course is called the real world course, so what we learn in classroom we experience in real life. We will have a chance to visit all the places that are part of the Canadian history and we will get to know the locals from that place, eat their food, and hear their stories. Once the course is over we will go to Mexico.

In Mexico, we will go to Cancun, Cozumel, Mexico City, and Puerto Vallarta. We are also going to Monterrey to visit some friends that we met when we were going to UNL. While we are in Mexico, we will volunteer during a week to help to build shelter for low income families.

Now we are heading to Central America; here our goal is to explore the coast and to do snorkeling. We will take 3 days to spend on a SPA and relax. We will spend some time in Honduras with Jose and his family. Jose is my exchange student brother. He spent a year with my American family in Colorado.

In South America, we will stop in Argentina to visit our friends Eloise and Charles. They were our roommates for 2 years when we were going to UNL. We will ski in Bariloche. In Peru we will explore the adventures of Machu Picchu. Once we fly to Brazil, we will meet our families in Rio de Janeiro. My American family will also meet us there, and then we will take a week to travel with the three families so they have a chance to know each other better and also to see us. We will take a cruise to an island called Fernando de Noronha. In Brazil we will try to visit our friends and to visit places that we don’t know yet. When we go back to Rio we will start working in our project to build an English school for low income kids that can not afford to pay for an English course.

Then we are going to head to Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia. In Europe we will also visit our ex-roommates, Inga from Germany, Pat from Spain, and Chiara from Italy. We also wanted to take a French course in France. This course is an Intensive Business course. In Africa we will visit Steven in Congo, Kemi in Nigeria, and Hami in South Africa. In Asia we will visit Takashi in Tokyo, Priya in India. We will spend some time in China visiting companies to see how they do business; we will also try to learn Mandarin while we are there. In Australia we will visit Lynne among other things. I will give you more details of the adventure when I came back. I am planning on keeping a journal to share with all my friends when this adventure is over. Our overall goal in this trip is to visit the world and make a difference in someone’s life. We will be traveling and volunteering in projects to help people around the world. Hopefully this will help us to grow as a person and also to see the world with a different point of view. We will try to learn as many languages as possible and to meet as many people as we can.

Let me know where you will be and we will come to visit you as well.

I miss you so much!

Sincerely,

Maria

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