Mariellen Ward

June had been sitting at her window for weeks now. She was stuck. Her town was the only town she knew. Her brother, Tim, who had been travelling for months now, came to her. He smiled with new lips and a new twinkle in his eye. He handed her a paper with writing on it. June read and Tim watched.
Where are forests hot as fire,
Wide as England, tall as a spire,
Full of apes and cocoa-nuts
And the negro hunters' huts;--
Where the knotty crocodile
Lies and blinks in the Nile,
And the red flamingo flies
Hunting fish before his eyes;- -Robert Louis Stevenson(Travel)
Her cheeks were shimmering with her wet wonder. He took her hand and together they befriended new towns beyond her town, beyond the sea, beyond the cocoa-nut trees. Travelling
There is a fantastic percentage of people who live in first world countries and who live in third world countries. Those who are privileged often don’t realize the magnitude of issues miles and miles away, but are only caught up in the issues of their own lives. A lifestyle such as this one eventually begins to encourage a closed view of the vast world that we live in. Therefore, the importance of seeing environments beyond one’s own becomes even greater. Mariellen Ward is a professional traveller who shares her experiences in her blog “Tales of Travel and Transformation”. She explains in her blog, “Whether you choose to experience the misery to which the human condition can descend or not, these people are still your brothers and sisters. We all occupy the same planet, the same mother earth. Your responsibility to your fellow global citizens is the same, whether you actually meet them all or not. Your visit to the slums of Mumbai will probably not save anyone from a life of poverty; it will probably not change anyone’s life – except your own.” Ward has spent many years of her life living among many cultures other than her own. Being exposed to poverty around the world humbles us and opens our