Recently in PLP we’ve been reading a play called the Crucible written by Arthur Miller. Based off life in the late 1600s (1692-1693 to be exact) this play shows the different aspects of living during this time period and how it relates to the 1950s when it was written. A big theme of this book is the idea of witchcraft, which nowadays we just consider a witch to be costume for Halloween. However back a couple hundred years ago anything out of the ordinary was considered witchery.
With reading this play there are mini assignments that come along with it. Our assignments consisted of created three separate opinion blog posts where we either had to answer a question or do some sort of creative writing. For my first blog post (the one you are reading right now) I chose the following prompt:
Read “How to Spot a Witch”. Write a paper or create something similar to this essay on how to spot a _________. You fill in the blank: example: How to Spot a Liar. How to Spot a Surfer. Etc.
I decided I was going to base this “how to spot a _____ “ assignment on something to do with travel. What better way to show my love of travel and the fact that I was away on a trip while this was assigned than to write about how to spot a tourist featuring my trip to Iceland. If you would like to read more about my trip then you can read then click here.
Glacier Lagoon
I’m sure you’ve probably all been in the situation where you’ve seen a tourist walking around your hometown or visited a place where you’ve been a tourist yourself. Living in Deep Cove we get quite a few tourists coming all year round to visit. Most of the time its quite obvious to tell when someone is visiting somewhere they are u familiar with. However when my family goes traveling we like to try and avoid being in the crowd of tourists and try to find the locals spots. This is not always the case though as many of the the beautiful locations and landmarks of a country and the mot visited ones.
Iceland gets a crazy amount of tourist each year and lets just say you can tell who’s not a local. If it’s not clear enough I’m going to make it even more obvious for you by showing you this visual of How to Spot a Tourist in Iceland (created by me).
