I'm eating an ice-cream cone on the plaza in Ponce. This was on our first night in Ponce and the ice-cream was a tasty treat after a long day!
By Chelsea Young
I imagine travel as exciting, humbling, and an experience worthwhile. I have always longed to travel outside of the United States, but have not had the opportunity to do so. I find other cultures and landscapes fascinating, and believe there is a greater world beyond that of my own to experience, communicate about and understand. Time and time again, while reading travel magazines or the newspaper’s travel section, I find myself drawn to the writing and eye-catching photography that accompanies each article. I strongly believe that participating in the “Communicating Culture: Travel Writing in Puerto Rico” program will give me a way to combine an interest, travel, with my area of study, journalism.
My experience in journalism is newspaper and magazine writing and design, and I would love to enhance that knowledge by learning the techniques of travel writing. I particularly enjoy creativity and using visual elements to tell a story, especially the way photographs and page design contribute to the form of journalism found in travel writing. Traveling another country and discovering its culture, while learning the techniques of travel writing would be of tremendous benefit in my exploration of this career track. The Puerto Rico journalism program would be rewarding in many ways, but perhaps the greatest would be deepening my knowledge of a subject I am passionate about and which may become a lifelong pursuit.
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