Questão 15 - UFT 2015

The trip that transformed me: The university graduate By Mia Simon

 

Australian Vanessa Costanzo expected her university

experience to prepare her for adulthood, but in reality, she

said, it prepared her only for a job. So after she graduated

from Curtin University in Western Australia in February

2013, she decided to travel.

Costanzo hoped to gain worldly knowledge that she

craved by spending seven months exploring Europe and

parts of the Middle East. Starting in 2014, the lessons

came fast and furious.

Her first stop was Dubai. Not long after she arrived,

she recalled watching men from Pakistan and India in blue

jumpsuits working tirelessly in the sweltering heat1 to

manage the upkeep of Sheikh Zayed Road, a major city

thoroughfare2.

Unlike Costanzo, they were not in a foreign country on

holiday. A cab driver told her that most were working for

minimal pay and living in substandard conditions. Much of

the money they earned they sent home to their families.

How did he know? He had a wife and child back home

in his native India. He hadn’t seen them in a year.

The lesson hit her hard: If you have the means to

travel, as she did, you’re fortunate. And you don’t need

material possessions to be happy.

 

Glossary:

1. sweltering heat: oppressively hot

2. thoroughfare: a main road

 

Source: http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20150224-the-trip-that-transformed-me-the-universitygraduate. Adapted.

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