#australia

La geografie, unul dintre primele lucruri pe care le-am învățat a fost că Pământul este o planetă sferică, turtită la poli și bombată la ecuator, care se învârte în jurul axei sale și în jurul soarelui.
Soarele și toate cele opt planete ale sistemului solar sunt rotunde. De ce? Forta gravitațională a masei unei planete își trage tot materialul spre centru, netezind orice neclaritate.
Multe din corpurile mai mici ale sistemului solar nu sunt rotunde, deoarece gravitația lor nu este suficient de mare pentru a le rotunji forma.
Anotimpurile, fusul orar, momentele zilei (răsăritul și apusul), toate acestea sunt dovezi că Pământul este rotund.
Dacă Pământul ar fi fost plat, atunci, apusul ar fi fost la aceeași oră atât la Sibiu cât și la Tokyo, dar nu e așa.
Atunci când la noi este iarnă iar în Australia este vară, sau vice versa, e o altă dovadă a faptului că planeta nu e plată. Acest lucru se întâmplă pentru că razele Soarelui ating Pământul la diferite unghiuri.

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Acum, tu poți crede ce dorești.🤷🏻‍♀️

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He was a total liability during the pandemic, £8.7 BILLION of sub-par PPE wasted and had to be destroyed, much of it bought from companies set up by his mates that left medical staff having to wear bin liners.
He’s a disgrace.
If it wasn’t for the NHS properly managing the vaccine roll-out that he claimed credit for, he’d have been looked at like he was another Failing-Chris-Grayling. (If you recall, Grayling was another minister around the same time who destroyed everything he touched - e.g. the procurement of a post-Brexit ferry system from a company with no ships and no shipping experience and using the website of a pizza takeaway.)
If it wasn’t for Hancock’s political shiteshow that caused people real harm, I’d just write him off as a hapless wazzock.
His latest stunt of trying to participate in a reality tv series based in Australia while he’s still a sitting MP saw him lose the Conservative Party whip given he was basically intending to desert his constituents while still being paid to represent them as their MP.
An absolute twat.

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He viajado más que la mayoría y también he leído más que la mayoría, y si algo tengo claro es que leyendo he aprendido infinitamente más.

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No sé la clase de viajes que haréis los que me estáis leyendo ahora mismo, pero lo habitual es visitar sitios turísticos, hacer un par de fotos, probar la comida típica y poca cosa más. Mantienes tus costumbres solo que en un sitio con otro decorado.

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A mí no me han dejado sola en la selva y he tenido que aprender a sobrevivir. No he conocido a nadie que guíe mi vida en algunas de mis largas horas en el aeropuerto y tampoco he descubierto el funcionamiento de un país simplemente con una visita al mismo.

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No aprendí a hacer pasta viajando a Italia pero sí leyendo un libro sobre el tema. No he conocido la disposición de los países en el mapa aunque he viajado en avión a Australia, he tenido que esperar a mirarlo en un atlas.
No recabé mucha información cuando me llevaron al monumento conmemorativo del 11-S pero sí leyendo sobre lo ocurrido.

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Para mí viajar es ver, ver personas, sitios y maneras de cocinar. Obviamente aprendes ciertas cosas en el proceso, pero no deja de ser estar en una burbuja en la que siempre te quedas con lo superficial.
Cuando viajas ves una realidad de manera temporal y bastante limitada, en cambio, con los libros puedes tomarte el tiempo que necesitas para aprender sobre cualquier tema, puedes profundizar mucho mas fácilmente y adentrarte en temas tabúes que quizás las personas del lugar nunca se atreverían a contarte.

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Casi diría que he aprendido mucho más del ser humano con los libros que entablando las banales conversaciones que suelen darse con aquellas personas que son desconocidas. Poca gente de otro país me ha hecho pensar, pero libros que me han hecho replantearme mi existencia y mis ideas tengo una lista inmensa.

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Viajar está sobrevalorado. A mí ni me cambia la vida, ni me hace mejor persona ni mucho menos me hace más culta.
Si tengo que elegir, prefiero leer, en los libros está todo.

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I think at first I will miss people and connections, probably. Like, if I get siсk, I know where to go and how to fоrge presсriptions to the phаrmacy; if something is brоken in the house, I know that it's uselеss to call the landlord and I need to repair everything myself; all sorts of little things like that. Like, at first I won't know where the gаrbage sorting is, how to fill out taxes, where you can buy fabric or glue or something specific, how to buy a car and so on, so I'll bother the locals (or google) with stuрid questions.

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The good thing is that, in a sense, I'm ready (and bothering google with dumb questions in advance). For example, if you drop me off in Scotland, China, Japan, Korea, America, Australia, England, Canada, Ireland, Kazakhstan (maybe a little, I don't speak the first official language, but I know the second) I won't even feel like an аlien. I have done my research and am quickly getting used to the new conditions. I see my friends a couple of times a month or two and communicate more online anyway. Many things that I'm used to are changing and disappеaring even here, so soon there will be nothing to miss.

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I really can't do more than 3 months of backpacking. Stuff that's okay at first really gets on my nerves after awhile. Getting next to no sleep, dealing with annoying drunk people in hostels, getting scammed, constantly watching my back, etc. I love it in short bursts but I'm always happy to be back "home" wherever that is. I'm currently living outside of my home country and much prefer spending a year or two in a different country and working, living, and meeting friends here. That way I can have my privacy and sleep and learn what it truly feels like to live in a country rather than just being a tourist passing through. I'm hoping to spend a year or more somewhere in Europe and Australia before settling down somewhere.
After my second long term trip (with no original return date), I'm returning home after the 5 month mark. Things didn't really pan out as I'd hoped, but I've realized that, partly due to personality, partly due to age (29), that I now want other things. Namely to start building things (skills, hobbies, money, relationships, a community), all of which although achievable, are very hard while you're travelling around with no permanency.
I don't know about that. After I had been here a year, and had been studying Chinese for most of that time, I began to feel more and more welcome. A larger and larger percentage of my close friends came from local Taiwanese rather than expat English teachers.
As someone that lived in Taiwan/Taipei for about 1.5 years (on and off) I'll tell you that you will NEVER fully assimilate into that culture. Other than the ex-pat community, you'll always be looked at as an outsider. I really can't explain it - but that place is seriously pretty xenophobic. Super super super nice, but unless you're from there...you'll always be viewed as an outsider.
I set out on a year long trip that I recently (after 4 months) decided to cut in half. Around the 2 month mark, I never wanted to stop travelling. Slowly my feelings changed and around 3-4 months I started feeling restless and it took more and more to impress me in the places I visitted. Generic backpacker small talk also started getting old. I'm feeling excited for my remaining month on this trip, but I think I've found my future backpacking limit at 2-3 months. I would love to live abroad and travel very slowly in thr long term (2-3 months per city), but for now I'm happy to return home.

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