Travel

Okay, my sister is using the bathroom and I remembered what I was going to talk about, so.

Sometimes I hear people talk about spending a year travelling around the world between leaving highschool and going to uni, or after uni but before starting a career. The notion's never really appealed to me, though. I can see why they'd want to - see new things, meet new people, stuff like that - but if you really wanted to see the world you couldn't really spend more than a couple of weeks, at the most, in any particular spot, and you'd also likely have to have an itinerary planned out for the entire trip. Not really my cup of tea.

But there are a few places I would like to travel to, perhaps more to live there for a time rather than to be a tourist. Japan, of course, is a big one, since I watch a lot of anime and play a lot of video games, and I've just sorta... soaked up a bit of their culture, I suppose. But it's second-hand, so I'd like to see it first-hand, to actually walk through Harajuku and Akihabara and speak to the people there - oh, and to learn conversational Japanese. Their cuisine is something else that appeals to me - did you know that in some places you can buy crepe pancakes from street vendors? That you can walk down the street eating a pancake and nobody will look at you twice? Oh, and of course, to learn a traditional Okinawan martial art is something else I'd like to do.

Europe is another place I'd like to go to, specifically, Scotland, Germany, England and Ireland, and a place I'd like to tour rather than to live. Castles, really, and the lands surrounding them are my pull to Europe, rather than culture.

America, perhaps, to see how different our cultures are, but it's a tenuous desire. (Can you use tenuous with desire? I'm not sure).

One day, perhaps. But not today and not tomorrow.

Shower time now.