“Are there new ways of travelling facilitated by Instagram? Does this have the potential to enhance or diminish our travel experience?” Limitations Like many U&G studies (Ruggiero 2000), this study relied on established studies and research papers and also primary interviews. Self-reports are restrictive as they are based on the interviewee’s personal memory which can…
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How a step back can be used as a step forward
Starting this week afresh seems more exciting than most other weeks. One of my more recent blog posts was detailing how as an epileptic I am managing to instill values of optimism and passion. I explained how I have just recently come back from 10 months of travelling abroad and despite being an epileptic for…
Driven, competitive and love human interactions: Hire me?
It’s 12am at night and I cannot sleep. I also find myself not being able to write. Isn’t it funny how sometimes you think you have a purpose but then can’t quite pinpoint what it is? Not religiously, not politically, not economically and definitely not socially put upon me by others, but what do I…
Optimism is a Choice – you choose
As I sit here ready to create a blog post based around values, I am seemingly finding it difficult to put into words what I truly believe and appreciate on a day-to-day basis let alone in my long-term attitudes. Elan Morgan in her Ted Talk, The Power of Personal Narrative indicates that ‘blogging rolls back…
A Reflection in Blogging
Throughout this process of blogging I have discovered two things: I love to blog. I don’t have time to blog. It’s so ironic; if I loved to blog I would make time to blog? Josh Pulman in his Somewhere Else project states “Everywhere we go, we carry with us options far more enticing than the…
The Maze Game
I am on Uni holidays and have come back home to visit my family. As I sit on my parents lovely, sun-filled balcony with my cat, Tilly, curled up and sun hitting her back, I realise the differences in lives. Both living beings, both with a heart and soul, with character traits and noticeably loud…
The Curious Mind
If someone were to ask you WHAT curiosity is, how would reply? I asked a few friends and one said ‘interest’, another said ‘stalking’ and the other said ‘jealousy’. From this, I understand that it is both opinion and experience that form our own definitions. My next line of questioning was WHY did that word…
Wanderlust. 