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DOCUMENT 1 Katie has made an important decision… My mother’s voice rang in my ears. ‘Honey, I just don’t think this little trip is a good idea. You hate to be alone. Why do you want to go halfway around the world to some godforsaken country all by yourself?’ I’d
DOCUMENT 1 Katie has made an important decision… My mother’s voice rang in my ears. ‘Honey, I just don’t think this little trip is a good idea. You hate to be alone. Why do you want to go halfway around the world to some godforsaken country all by yourself?’ I’d tried to explain that it was just that – the fact that I’d never done anything 5 remotely spontaneous before, that I hadn’t so much as had lunch by myself in the six years since graduating from college, but she hadn’t understood. Neither had anyone else. ‘You’re going where?’ My father had asked when I announced my plan during one of my mandatory, bimonthly visits to their house in Westchester, finally looking up from the Wall Street Journal for what must have been the first time in my adult life. 10 ‘Vietnam. For a backpacking trip. There will be a group of eight, people from all over the world, and we’ll have a leader who will take us through the country. I think it’ll be amazing,’ I said, not a little defensively, trying to convince myself as much as him. ‘Humph,’ he exhaled, and buried his face back between the pages. ‘I spent some of the best years of my life trying to avoid that hellhole and now my kid is paying to go. Pretty 15 damn ironic if you ask me.’ End of discussion. Their doubts made it all the more appealing, of course. You don’t have to be some angsty1 teenager to find enormous satisfaction in pissing off your parents, that much was sure. But I did have to admit, this was not what I had pictured when I’d carefully packed 20 my cutest sundresses and shopped for weeks for hiking boots with the perfect combination of ruggedness and femininity. Lauren Weisberger, The Bamboo Confessions, 2004, (p.60, p.62, p.64) 1. angsty: mal dans sa peau 15ANTE1PO1 2/5 DOCUMENT 2 British sisters describe how they swam for eight hours to reach safety after their Indonesian ferry sank Two sisters who were on board a ferry that sank off a remote Indonesian island have revealed how they spent ten hours clinging to the wreckage1 before swimming for eight hours through shark infested waters to reach safety. Backpackers Katherine and Alice Ostojic from Stevenage had been on their way to the 5 island of Komodo on a four day cruise when