Park Geun Yeong
University of Ulsa
There are many things that I have come to love while traveling abroad, but there are three specific things that stand out. First, I usually fall in love with the scents of the country I am visiting. When you arrive at the airport by plane, you can smell it. Air temperatures are also different so you can feel and remember them better. For example, when I arrived in Indonesia, I smelled the stuffy, moist air with a touch of sweet and sour scent of flowers.
In Indonesia, I found out that the flower Franzipani is similar to the fragrance of the flower. Second, I liked the taste of tropical fruits and was fascinated by them. The tropical fruits I refer to here are not pineapples or bananas that can easily be found in Korea, but mango, mangosteen, and durian. The first time I became interested in tropical fruits was when a friend from the Philippines gave me dried mango as a gift. Since then, I remember eating ice cream with my friend mainly because it tasted like mango. It was when I went to Cambodia that I actually ate other raw fruits. I went there with a friend who had been eating mango ice cream with us, and even before we went, we promised to eat mango until we were sick of it. But we have, ironically, fallen in love with the juicy, sweet taste of mangosteen. This is still my favorite fruit. We ate durian, and it was really hard for me then, but now I really think it is delicious.
The last thing I enjoy about traveling, which I think may also be the driving force behind this article, are the fond healing memories I make. When I think about the things I love before going to bed, I can feel a little bit of happiness. I love songs that I heard often when I was traveling, or scenes that I experienced, and feel extremely fortunate to have made so many good memories while traveling. In order to make more memories such as these, I will travel and keep a record of them on future trips.
