Today I received a message on Facebook asking this question:
What is the destination that gives you most want to go eat at the table inhabitants? and why?
China, Cuba, France, Sweden...
Put your response on the wall of the group that I can compare with more answers!
Thank you in advance!
To avoid the risk of losing my thought-out words (and, maybe, so I can reflect on this later), I thought I'd answer it on my blog first and then copy and paste my answer on Facebook for delivery to Nina.
Dear Nina,
I don't know if this is what you're looking for, but I can say right off the bat that for me it's Australia. Why? Because... well, I can't say for sure, I can only take a guess based on my own recent experiences. Three years ago this month, in fact, three years ago last Friday, I flew into Sacramento, California from Little Rock, Arkansas because I was moving back to California. I transfered from Arkansas State University, Beebe to California State University, Sacramento, through which an experience I had not foreseen on the plane would open my mind--and my heart--to opportunities I had no previous desire for.
After receiving an Associates Degree on a satellite campus on an Air Force base, I was about to learn about real college life in a culture not at all like the one I'd spent the previous seven years with as a Southern Belle, so I felt very much like an outsider. However, after the second day of school, one young gentleman spoke with me (and the lady who is now my best friend) at the bus stop. I didn't know who he was, but he said I was in his class: Acting Study 1, the class that had met the previous day. I didn't know where he was from, only that he wasn't from around here. He told me he was an Australian exchange student just starting his second semester there at Sac State. Although it took a good few minutes just to get his name because of his accent, he made me feel welcome, and I felt assured that I would be better treated in college than I had been in grade school.
Fast forward to right after I'd finished my last midterm, I went skydiving for the very first time... under the wing of a charming Australian gentleman. I had dared to take a chance through Peak Adventures, an outdoor recreation business on campus, and gone to Lodi and I guess they have quite the handful of international staff there. Well, that experience had a lot of impact on me. To make it easier, please allow me to share this video I made of a collage I was rehearsing for my Voice & Movement class. If you're directly on the YouTube page, you can click on the description and click on the time that will take you straight to First Flight. I think that will finish my explanation quite nicely.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbWLSm5R-zo
...hope this isn't too long for her. Lol
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