How I Spent My Vacation Essay 250 Words

[Robinette Ith]

MySemestral break was really relaxing. Some people spent this time to relieve their stress and to have a vacation. It is one of the awaited part of students because it is the time for them to relax, hang out, go for swimming, vacation and other exciting activities and to do whatever they want do and go whenever they want

When October 31 comes, we go to the cemetery with my family to clear the tomb of my grandfather and we buy some flowers and candles for him. We spent there overnight, bonding with each other, eating, singing, playing and many more. On the next day, we go home at 7:00 in the evening and my relatives also go back to their own towns or home. And I go back to my routines again.

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I had no idea about this place, so I had to look it up on the internet; Malindi is a town found in the South-Eastern part of Kenyan and along the Kenyan coast. A place that is famous for its chain of tropical beaches that is dotted by many hotels and resorts anyone can choose to stay in.

We chose Malindi as our summer vacation destination after we read that Usain Bolt the famous 100 & 200 Meter record-holder had adopted an abandoned 8-months cheetah in Kenya. It was so touching, and he even went further to name the cheetah Lightning Bolt with a pledge to pay $3,000 a year after he had paid $13,000 as adoption fees.

We arrived in Kenya a week later after the summer vacation had started, and we headed straight to our hotel room to relax and be ready to get started early enough the following day. We took a small walk in the evening with our tour guide just to familiarize ourselves with the vicinity and interact with the locals.

Everyone was so lively and hospitable, and we felt at home. Back at our hotel, we spent a better part of the night talking about what we saw and planned the places to visit come morning. By the look of the serene atmosphere around us, right from our hotel, it promised to be the best two weeks away from school, home, and in Malindi too.

All in all, it was a road trip to behold, and we were filled with unimaginable happiness that could last for ages. We went to the beach, and we had beautiful and fantastic moments sailing on the hand-crafted dhows that make the beach exceptionally beautiful. At the beach, we got a chance to eat seafood lunch, drank mnazi-a cocktail made from coconut milk, explored different beach places, and so much more.

Damn, the food and the drinks were so traditional and sweet to sample we even bought some for our supper. We also got a chance to snorkel at the Beach as we interacted with the locals who taught us new African dance styles.

Next, we visited the Watamu National Marine Park which is a marvelous place to visit. The breeze blew against our bodies, as we walked through the aqua park that has almost 1,000 different fish and other aqualife species. The park is built on beautiful coral-reefs grounds that have beautiful gardens all around. Along the shore, our eyes were mesmerized as we spotted all species of birds, on top of the amazing turtles and dugongs. We feasted our eyes on a lot, as much as we could and once we got satisfied we headed to the sandy beach to sunbathe, water skiing, and windsurfing just to end the eventful day on a climax.

The last days of my summer vacation with my family in Malindi were spent visiting all the places we could manage to go to. We resolved to maximize the value of the last days of our vacation. Also, it was supposed to end on a high note and compliment the excitement we had since we arrived.

My best site visit was the Falconry of Kenya that gave us a chance to be in close contact with a vast collection of birds of prey and other wild animals. I even saw a tortoise that was 200-years old! The falconry boasts of falcons, peckers, owls, and goshawks; we took turns petting, feeding, and playing with some birds. Additionally, the site shelters crocodiles, green mambas, cobras, lizards, monkeys, and pythons.

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This is the first of a series of blog posts which will share images, videos, and impressions from my extensive lecture tour this summer across Europe. I think of these posts as the equivalent of a scrapbook. For me, they are a way of consolidating my impressions on what were truly transformative experiences and encounters. I am hoping for the reader they will function as one part travel guide and one part overview of some key figures and developments in Europe around the topics which I regularly cover here.

Over the course of ten weeks, I ended up giving more than 30 talks and visited 12 European countries at a moment of tension and transition within the European Union. As someone commented on my Facebook page near the end of the trip, "Now everyone in Europe has had the chance to hear Henry Jenkins speak at least twice."

In almost every case, it was the first time my wife and I had visited those places and so we engaged with each with curiosity and excitement. I had never really been able to spend significant amounts of time in Europe before, having not had the resources to be a foreign exchange student in high school, to do the Junior semester abroad programs as an undergraduate, or to hitchhike across Europe after graduation, all the stereotypical ways Americans get to know Europe.

As Convergence Culture began to be translated into many European languages, I felt a very strong desire to visit Europe in a more substantial and systematic way, to engage in conversation with the people who were reading the book, and to learn more about how its themes were playing out in a European context. But, the trip kept getting put off as I struggled with my decision to leave MIT and then dealt with the transition to USC, and so this summer was the first time I could make this dream into a reality.

The timing could not have been better, since I could also now use the trip to talk about a range of forthcoming projects, each of which build on the foundations of ideas introduced in Convergence Culture, including a special issue of Transformative Works and Cultures on fan activism (which I co-edited with Sangita Shreshtova and the members of my Civic Paths team), Spreadable Media: Creating Meaning and Value in a Networked Culture (Co-authored with Sam Ford and Joshua Green, and due out in January), the 20th anniversary edition of Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture (coming out from Routledge this fall), and Reading in a Participatory Culture (co-edited and co-written with a group of former students and researchers associated with the New Media Literacies Project, due out from Teacher's College Press by the end of 2012.) For me, these projects represent the finalization of many ideas and projects started at MIT and now reaching completion.

Finally, this summer represented a moment of transition as I start really working on book projects which represent the conceptual breakthroughs I have made since starting work at USC, and thus, the summer was a way of clearing my head, refocusing my thinking, as I prepare for some new ventures.

This trip would not have been imaginable without the hard work of Amanda Ford, my ever-resourceful assistant, who coordinated with my hosts at each of these cities to resolve the many, many details involved in pulling off a trip on this scale, certainly the most extensive, exhaustive, and exhausting trip I've ever tackled. I also could not have done it without the partnership of my wife, Cynthia, who acted as the "official photographer" on the trip (almost all of the images I will be running in this series are hers) and also helped to puncture my ego whenever needed to prevent too much swelling of the head.

Our trip began in Germany and I recall those first few days through a deep haze -- one part end of term exhaustion, one part jet lag. But one of the more surreal aspects of our first leg was waking up from my sleep in the middle of the afternoon on the first day to the sounds of hail hitting the balcony outside my room and looking down into the streets below, more or less covered with ice. Keep in mind that this was the first week of May and that no one in Marburg could recall having seen a hail storm this late in the year before.

This is not the best of pictures, but it gives you some sense of what we saw from the hotel window. I think back on the hail storm as ironic in several senses. First, as any American will tell you, Europe suffers from a severe shortage of ice otherwise. Even when you beg waiters for ice, they return with one or two small slivers, not convinced that it is really healthy to have ice in your drinks. So, the travel gods delivered most of the ice we'd see the whole trip in one dump. And second, by the time the trip was ending, the weather in Europe was sweltering and we were on the verge of melting into the asphalt, so the move from a hail storm in Marburg to 100 degree days in Athens or Rome, says something about just how long we were on the road.

Marburg is a classic medieval German city -- narrow, winding streets, buildings with lots of "gingerbread" decorations -- and it feels as if it were a location in the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. This is no accident since the Brothers Grimm spent a portion of their lives here and that many of their visits into the country side to collect local folk tales which form the basis of their narratives were in the region around this town.

My host for this leg of the journey was Malte Hagener, who has recently published (with Thomas Elssasser) Film Theory: An Introduction Through the Senses , which offers an approach to classic problems in cinema studies through a framework that is highly appropriate to those of us working in Comparative Media Studies. I plan to use some of its chapters in my course on Medium Specificity this fall.

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