The three stories I chose for this final paper are all written by people who have traveled to or lived in foreign countries. These stories focus on different topics that happened in different countries, but a common thread runs through all of them: the desire to experience a culture different from one’s own and the results of doing so. Each author enthusiastically recounts the excitement of traveling to a different place, but also reflects on hardships encountered and lessons learned. Those stories are In the first story, Fire and Water, the author Connor (2011) writes about her experiences in the Northern part of Africa travelling with her mother, boyfriend, and her boyfriend’s younger brother. Connor explained how they were supposed to up
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Because Fink was having a hard time fitting into the Japanese culture. Another is resistance because the Japanese people were not as open to Fink until he met the old lady and her husband and they accepted him.
The final story I chose, One Day, Three Dead Men, by Marcia DeSanctis (2011) is about DeSanctis finding herself again in Russia after giving Russia up for a life as a marry woman with now two grown children.
In DeSanctis forties, she found her old obsession began to scratch at her. She had begun to travel, write and work again, but Russia was calling her back. When she was in Russia she worked as a tour guide for doctors on professional exchange programs. She crisscrossed the Soviet Union, she worked at a television network and traveled frequently to the USSR. She had fell in love three times while on assignment during Moscow winters.
DeSanctis need to go back to Russia was a classic midlife epiphany as she describe. She wanted to be sure and soothe herself with knowledge that she might be the dame person she was three decade ago. In Russia, she talked about her struggle with her money budgeting. She was having a hard time finding cheap food. Her struggle to remember the language she was once fluent
Because Fink was having a hard time fitting into the Japanese culture. Another is resistance because the Japanese people were not as open to Fink until he met the old lady and her husband and they accepted him.
The final story I chose, One Day, Three Dead Men, by Marcia DeSanctis (2011) is about DeSanctis finding herself again in Russia after giving Russia up for a life as a marry woman with now two grown children.
In DeSanctis forties, she found her old obsession began to scratch at her. She had begun to travel, write and work again, but Russia was calling her back. When she was in Russia she worked as a tour guide for doctors on professional exchange programs. She crisscrossed the Soviet Union, she worked at a television network and traveled frequently to the USSR. She had fell in love three times while on assignment during Moscow winters.
DeSanctis need to go back to Russia was a classic midlife epiphany as she describe. She wanted to be sure and soothe herself with knowledge that she might be the dame person she was three decade ago. In Russia, she talked about her struggle with her money budgeting. She was having a hard time finding cheap food. Her struggle to remember the language she was once fluent