by Mackenzie Brim
The first class session for Tourism and Media I arrived
unaware of the great journey on which I was about to embark. I sat by myself on
the side wall in a room of stark gray tables and cheap carpet and waited in
silence with the other students anticipating the arrival of our professors.
Joselyn arrived first with hands overflowing with a crockpot full of chili and
cloth bags full of other food. She explained that we should get used to it
because we would be cooking for the whole group when we got to the “Island,” as
she and Meta called it. I couldn’t help but think Oh god what have I gotten
myself into.
With your writing you can transport your readers to new
worlds and expose them to things they couldn’t otherwise experience. This is
why I have always been interested in the field of travel writing and ultimately
why I decided to take this class. It had been so long since I had written
creatively in any sense of the word. Bogged down by the formatting of academics
and research I had forgotten why I loved it so much.
That first writing assignment we did was to describe our
room as a destination. I titled mine “A Pink Paradise,” after all the pink
decorations and jungle foliage mural in my room. I didn’t keep the paper: It
disappeared into the abyss that is my backpack. But that writing inspired my
trip and a journey that would lead me to learn things about myself.
Mackenzie Brim
mackenziebrim.com
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