Something a little more upbeat than "I Miss Bagels"

Blogger won't let me link this, so I'm sorry to say you'll need to copy and paste.

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2010/10/30/20-things-ive-learned-from-traveling-around-the-world-for-three-years/


My friend Silvia found this on the internet and sent it to the group of exchange students for my district. We loved it, and it found it's way into more than one Outbound report. What attracted mt to it the most was how it made me wonder what I would have thought if I had been reading this a year ago. Even the statements I know I would have agreed with seem so different to me now I've gone through experiencing them, from seeing McDonald's selling the McTurko sandwich to living in eight hours from a terrorist attack. As my host uncle put it, Istanbul is a big city. He could live anywhere and it would be dangerous, whether it was London, New York, or Istanbul. People talk about Taksim Square in Istanbul, where the bomb went off, as the place where there's always something to do. It's where the best clubs are. But that doesn't really make it into the news.

Lastly, some context for the article. Tim Ferriss has become famous for being the ultimate guinea pig. Essentially, he tries to make what we assume are incredibly difficult or impossible things (four hour work week, four hour body) achievable for many, if not most people. Then he writes a book about what works. But he didn't actually write this list. Gary Arndt did, as his first article for the Huffington post. I posted Ferriss' blog because it's a direct link, and you don't have to go through a slide show, which I generally hate.