Border crosser's

     They both do cross a border, a border that they have never crossed before. They both go to places they have never seen or experienced before. One is going for politics and the other is simply going there as a writer. Kapuscinski is very nervous when he heard he was going to India and he never thought he would be the one chosen to go there. "The editor in chief was summoning me to her office. "You know," she said, as I stood before her desk, he are sending you. You'll go to India" My first reaction was astonishment And right after that, panic: I knew nothing about India. I feverishly searched my thoughts for some associations, images. names. Nothing. Zero." He did not know very much about India. He also did not know where or what to start writing about when he got there. "During all those days after my arrival in Delhi I was tormented by the thought that I was not working as a reporter, that I was not gathering material for the stories that I would later have to write... But I found myself emptyhanded. and feeling incapable of doing anything, at a loss even to know where to begin. I knew nothing about India, after all, and hadn't asked for it."
     Russel was comparing Bosnia to her home town a little saying that not everybody has it as well as that town does. She was saying that Bosnia was in worse shape then Dublin and that is why she went to Bosnia. I believe that Russel is crossing the border of near death and it is scary for her. "It's not normal for violence and death to walk hand in hand in the sunshine. Sunny days are for picnics, for lying in the long grass, for taking a bottle of water and setting out to walk across a bog. But then this is not a normal world." As she stated it is not a normal country because there has been not much peace in Bosnia just a bunch of fighting.
     I think both borders matter to me. The border of near death is pretty scary I want to know what is going on in a country before I go and visit it. I want some sort of protection with me as well. As for crossing the border of not knowing much about a country I need to do some research on where I would be visiting. I know my family is going somewhere for vacation out of the U.S, this summer so once I figure out where we are going I am for sure doing some research about that country and checking the ratings on the hotel.

Journal 4

     One source I would use would be from Twain's piece "Roughing It." "I only proposed to stay in Nevada for three months. I had no thought of staying longer than that. I meant to see all I  could that was new and strange, and then hurry home to business. I little thought that I would not see the end of that three-month pleasure excursion for six or seven uncommonly long years" (Pg.2). I want to go someplace different and plan to see a bunch of sites. I do want to see something that makes me want to stay longer than what I originally planned. I do not think that I would want to stay a place for seven years, but staying a month when I only planned for a couple weeks would be nice. I want to see all the English Premier League stadiums and that would take almost a month if I saw one every day. If I go there I feel like I would need to go to different places long the way as well. I would probably want to experience some night life around the town and go to different pubs and watch some games. I want to find something that I have never seen before that makes me want to stay in some place for longer than I had planned.
      "Abroad is the place where we stay up late, follow impulse and find ourselves as wide open as when we are in love. We live without a past or future, for a moment at least, and are ourselves up for grabs and open to interpretation" (Iyer, pp. 13). I would want to stay up late knowing I would have to go to the next town to see another stadium, but the interest of the night life in England would keep me up. Maybe I will stay up late when I would go to the less interesting stadiums. I would have to plan my trip accordingly because I know the nights in Newcastle get pretty crazy and I do not want to miss that. Now my worry about being open is saying something about a soccer match to some Englishman and pushing the wrong buttons in a pub. All of England is really passionate about their soccer teams and I could be a little critical of their teams play sometimes. I do not play professional soccer and I know it is very hard, but some of the plays they make are just inexcusable. They often have you say "I could have made that play."  I do want to get lost in all the history that happened at some of these stadiums and I would be very excited to see The Old Trafford. 

Traveler Vs. Tourist

    I believe that there is a distinct difference between a traveler and a tourist. Iyer says "We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate" (Iyer, pg 1, 2015). As a traveler they tend to get lost in the culture. As a tourist they tend to pick out spots they want to see and that is all they do. They do not go out and explore because they often do not know the terrain. Like we said in class a traveler could adapt to the culture and make a bed out of anything. The tourist needs to have a bed ready for them because they are too afraid to go figure out whats actually out there. The traveler does often lose them self in the culture and the views of the world while the tourist does get lost in the beauty of certain things they do not see everything that deals with where they go and tour.
      In the first section of Twain's piece he seems excited to travel. "I never had been away from home, and that word 'travel' had a seductive charm for me" (Twain, pg. 1-2). Travelers always seem to have that excited feeling when they go to a new place. They are eager to learn about a new culture and a new piece of land. Just like Twain was because he had never been away from home. Some tourists seem to drag their feet when they are going on a trip. I can speak of that from experience. I went to Gettysburg a while back and was not excited about it at all. I wanted to stay home. I did not know anything about the place other than it was a big war zone. Now looking back at the experience I can appreciate everything I saw there. It was truly an amazing place to be. I feel like tourists do not understand that sometimes and do not appreciate where they are actually at while the travelers certainly do.
     In the beginning of Steve's' video he says that he encourages people to become "temporary locals." I feel like the tourists do not do that. The tourists see what they want to see and get out. The travelers can get lost in the culture and stay for a while. Sometimes they see something they like and stay for a longer period that they expected. Those are some of the differences I see between the traveler and tourist. I am sure there are many more as well.