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6 out of the 7 continents complete!

Yasmeen Ketcherside

Nov 28, 2016

Arizona State University

Yasmeen Ketcherside

Having been to 6 out of the 7 continents at such an early age, I am so fortunate. These below are not all the places I've been, but they are the ones that stand out the most! First, I wanted to thank my parents, as well as support and motivation from my friends, and second, please enjoy my little 'travel blog'!

Location: Tanzania

Cities visited: Arusha, Zanzibar, Serengeti National Park, Dar es Salaam

Favorite Memories: Our jeep driver drove us into a flowing river, thinking we could get through it... we didn't. Hunted with one of the last hunter and gatherer tribes in Tanzania. The bugs...

Fun Fact: The stone Tanzanite comes from here!

Location: Australia

Cities visited: Sydney, Cairns, Tasmania, Alice Springs

Favorite Memory: Tasting crocodile and kangerroo for the first time!

Fun Fact: It is a country, as well as a continent!

Location: Egypt

Cities visited: Cairo, Alexandria

Favorite Memory: Obviously visiting the PYRIMADS!

Fun Fact: The Sphinx is a lot smaller than I thought!

Location: Brazil

Cities visited: Rio de Janiero

Favorite Memory: New Years Eve in rio!

Fun Fact: Everyone wears white on New Years in Brazil to represent peace for the next year!

Location: Greece

Cities visited: Athens, Santorini, Crete

Favorite Memory: Smashing grapes to make wine and riding up stairs in Santorini on donkies!

Fun Fact: Greece has more archaeological museums than any other country in the world!

Location: Turkey

Cities visited: Istanbul, Cappadocia

Favorite Memory: Cave exploring in Cappadocia!

Fun Fact: Istanbul's Grand Bazaar has 64 streets, 4000 shops and 25,000 workers!

Location: South Africa

Cities visited: Cape Town, Johannesburg, Kruger National Park

Favorite Memory: Playing with the elephants, the safaries, and teaching little kids english!

Fun Fact: South Africa’s drinking water is rated 3rd best in the world for being safe and ready to drink!

Location: Spain

Cities visited: Barcelona, Seville, Granada, Madrid

Favorite Memory: Being in Madrid when Real and Atletico played eachother, seeing a bull fight, and visiting Camp Nou!

Fun Fact: Spain produces 45% of all olive oil in the world!

Location: Argentina

Cities visited: Buenos Aires

Favorite Memory: Staying with my first ever homestay!

Fun Fact: Messi is a God.

Location: France

Cities visited: Paris, Nice

Favorite Memory: Studying journalism in Paris, and coming to the conclusion that Parisians are nicer to female tourists than they are to male tourists.

Fun Fact: There is only one stop sign in all of Paris!

Location: Peru

Cities visited: Lima, Cusco

Favorite Memory: Getting to the top of Machu Picchu on a Tuesday while listening to Tuesday!

Fun Fact: Peru is the second largets producer of Cocaine.

Location: China

Cities visited: Beijing, Shanghai, Yunnan

Favorite Memory: Teaching little kids english as well as taking the slide down the Great Wall of China!

Fun Fact: There is a slide on the Great Wall of China!?! *still shocked

Location: England

Cities visited: London

Favorite Memory: Going to an English pub!

Fun Fact: You will meet people here, and still not be able to understand them!!

Thank you for reading about my adventures, and I hope that this inspires you to travel because I think that it is very important to see how other people live on the other side of the world, some things may shock you!

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2. When there is only one section of a popular course.

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4. When you need to see an advisor, but they are too busy/unresponsive.

5. Trying not to dress like a bum for your appointments with your advisors/department heads.

6. When you have a perfectly planned out schedule, and one class ruins it.

7. Carefully moving things around to accommodate a different class/section.

8. Waking up at 6:00 a.m. for your enrollment time.

9. Concocting a new schedule at your enrollment time after your original plan gets changed.

10. Getting into a class and filling the last available seat.

11. When all of your classes finally go through.

12. Realizing that you forgot a class that was a pre-requisite for everything else.

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9. When you have to butter up your professor for an extra credit opportunity.

10. When you're assigned a group project.

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12. When it's your last class of the day and you're about to go home.

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