Culture

Culture is an interesting thing, and I would love to study it, but not in a classroom. I was walking through the courtyard at school thinking of all the possibilities of classes I have for next year. I'm sure Spanish 4 deals a lot with culture and that it would be very interesting, but I just have no desire to learn about the culture of a country from a textbook. I want to live, I want to experience it!

I am very interested in the world right now. I love languages, and how people in other parts of the world live their lives and interact with various people fascinates me. I would truly enjoy traveling the global and learning all I can about each and every individual country. I would spend all my life doing that, if I had the money for such a life-style.

When I really stop and think about it no two countries are the same, just like no two people are the same. It's kind of difficult to imagine how we all got to be so far apart in technology and governments when we all started from the same humble position, yet through out the millenniums the world has become a completely different place everywhere you turn. Each country has it's own individual history, it's own people, and it's own language.

I don't think I'll learn a culture from a textbook, they really isn't the way to do it. It's one thing to read about someone who has lived an incredible life and something completely different to experience it for yourself. I love the world and the people in it and I want to meet them and really get to know them, not be told a stereotype. When I'm older and have flown the nest I pray that I will have the blessing of traveling the world and learning all about the various cultures it has.