Treasure Beach, Jamaica :)

I will leave from the Toronto Pearson Airport and fly to Jamaica, flying air Jamaica most likely. First class of course. I will travel mostly by foot and use a rental car when needed, hopefully a Ferrari. Since I will be staying mostly at Treasure Beach I will be staying at the Golden Sands Beach Hotel, and have a nice little house right on Treasure Beach itself. I will visit the Pelican Bar probably every day to meet new people and because it is located on a sandbar just off the coat of Treasure Beach and that seems amazing. I would also like to visit the Gourie Forest Reserve because it sounds incredibly interesting. I would love to see inside the caves and hike the trails in the forest because nature and history sparks my interest.  I would also go to the Jack Sprat Café which is conveniently located on Treasure Beach where I will be staying. I would also visit the other beaches in the Treasure Beach Location. Some other museums and historical sites that I could venture out and visit are Dennis Abrahams Boat Tours, Villa Bella Tours, and Marshall’s pen Great House. I will eat at the Pelican Bar and the New Den restaurant mostly eating seafood and Jamaican specialty foods. 

 

Travel Writing Activity

a.) The author hooks the reader by going into a detailed description of where she is and what she is doing. “You are sure with one false step you’ll plummet off the edge.” She also explains why she is climbing to the Kingdom of Bhutan and that she had been there before. The severity of falling attracts the reader’s attention because they want to know why it is so easy to fall and where she is.            
b.) “I’ve got on my thick-soled boots, an ugly long black down coat with a hood, and six layers of clothing underneath.” This quotation not only gets the reader to envision what she is wearing and what it looks like but it gets them to feel how heavy six layers of clothing is by just imagining this.
            “Slight, frail seniors navigate the twists and turns and inclines deftly from memory, in a fraction of the time it takes foreigners half their age.” In this quotation the reader can picture a slight frail senior as she described travelling uphill because of her use of descriptive language.
           
c.) There was no dialogue used in this travel writing piece.

d.) The Bhutanese people live off the land and prosper greatly from their farming. They are of Buddhist decent and have a sacred temple in Taktsang that many people travel to pray/meditate in because it is said that if you go there to pray you will be cleansed and renewed. Taktsang is said to give the people that   visit great blessings for travelling 10,000 ft be foot to reach the temple and   village itself.

e.) I would love to visit Taktsang because I would want to know what it would feel like to be cleansed of your past and given renewal. I would also love to see the Bhutanese’s way of life because it seems very withdrew from modern society and I am interested in how the culture lives primarily off the land. I also think other religions are quite interesting and would want to know more about the Buddhist religion and the people.  

f.) This author is very descriptive when she retells her journey. She touches all the five senses throughout her piece and it is almost as if you are there with her experiencing and seeing the sites she is describing. Her use of word choice engages the reader from start to finish and there is never a dull moment in her story.

g.) Into Sacred Air by: Lisa Napoli:

         

            http://www.worldhum.com/features/travel-stories/into-sacred-air-taktsang-bhutan-20120409/
           

                                                 Taktsang Monastery, Bhutan. Photo by Goran via Flickr

Cheesy Grossness

Cheese Whiz is something that I have only tried once and it was absolutely vomatrocious. It made me incredibly sick and I cannot understand how people enjoy it. I mean eating it on a cracker is one thing but just treating it like it’s peanut butter and gulping down spoonfuls at a time is certainly another. It is disgusting. The texture of it is like rubber almost like you have to chew this creamy cheese mix in order to swallow it, although it is claimed to be ‘creamy’ it is more like a paste…lies. It is just another way of ruining cheese, processing it yet again to mask what a great creation cheese actually is. I bet there isn’t even real cheese in it.

Cheese Whiz is by far the nastiest thing Kraft has ever produced, next to their spray cheese which is just as bad. People actually spray cheesy goo all over their meals! Whether it is a pasta sauce or spread on top of a taco either way they are all quite gross. I can recall the one and only time I indulged in the terrors of Cheese Whiz and it was in kindergarten during snack. Every Friday someone would bring in a treat for snack and boy was in for one that week…. My best friend brought in celery with guess what on top? Cheese Whiz…. Ugh. I was her best friend so I felt obligated to eat it even though my stomach was saying DON’T YOU DARE, but I had to we were best friends. So I decided to reach for the smallest one when she came around with it so that I could eat it all in one bite. To my disadvantage they were all huge. At least 3 inches long I’d say. So I braced myself for the worst took one with a smile and placed it on my napkin.

I didn’t want to eat it at all. I was even going to try and hide it in my napkin and just throw it away but then she came and sat down… I was trapped and so I picked it up, bit into it eyes closed and chewed and chewed until I could quickly swallow it. The worst was over and I opened them to see that my friend had gotten up so I stealthily slipped the rest of the contaminated celery stick into my napkin and bolted for the garbage. I was safe but there was an aftertaste in my mouth that I will never forget. The Cheese Whiz had created a coating around my mouth and I needed to be rid of it fast so I chugged my Capri Sun and was finally at peace.

I can honestly say that I have not tried Cheese Whiz ever since kindergarten and do not intend to for the rest of my life. If you like Cheese Whiz that’s okay each to his/her own I guess, I just find it sickening.

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