Recently, i have been staying at home and watching television very often. One thing about me, i like to watch television and my favourite channel has always been ASTRO 707 Travel & Living. I think travelling is really a great experience for one to experience other countries' culture, foods, beliefs and the way different people live their life everyday. I just watched one of my fav show now on 707- "Places to go with Jennifer Adams."
Jennifer is a travel journalist and this show is really interesting as compared to the others because it does not only show the foods of that country but of the journey that she went through and the people that she meet along her journey. She describes not only of their culture but of her experience through the whole journey.
The show is great and very very interesting. The show i watched just now is about her journey in Africa. She went to places like Kenya and Tanzania. She went up Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania- a trip that cost her 5 days. Really a tiring journey. Before that journey, the guide taught Jennifer and her boyfriend, Clint to adopt their culture of "poli poli" which means slowly, slowly in Swahili. (Swahili is a Bantu language that serves as an alternative first language to various groups traditionally inhabiting about 1,500 miles of the Southeast African (Swahili has no true native speakers as it is a language not affiliated to an ethnicity). And eventually with that in mind, they took their time in climbing the mountain and made it to the peak. I like this saying because it really encourages one to experience the journey rather than just hoping to reach the peak instantly. It also helps one to have faith and courage to face things one step at a time because life is really too short and we should take it slowly and enjoy what we have right now. Right?
And of course, how can you go to Africa without experiencing and witnessing the animal kingdom. It's one of the most natural , free and untouched environment that one can witness the cycle of life itself. It is really amazing and by showing that, i really would like to say Africa will definitely be in my list of places to go once i can afford it. I like watching shows from this channel and will never get bored of it. It's the only medium that can take me to places without having me to even take one step out of the house. It also definitely because i want to travel around one day, one day..hopefully it will come soon.
