They say there is is a first time for everything but when you travel to a new country or new place almost every thing you do is for the first time. It's like being a kid again discovering new sights, sounds and tastes.
Now first times can be adventurous like riding a rickshaw in India for the first time and your driver tells you that he knows where the place you want to go is, but actually he doesn't know because he ends up asking every other driver in the traffic of motor bikes, rickshaws and cars, he might also drive on the wrong side of the road from time to time and take random U-turns get to the other side of the street, non the less it's quite an adventure riding a rickshaw and so far my favourite first.
Now first times can be adventurous like riding a rickshaw in India for the first time and your driver tells you that he knows where the place you want to go is, but actually he doesn't know because he ends up asking every other driver in the traffic of motor bikes, rickshaws and cars, he might also drive on the wrong side of the road from time to time and take random U-turns get to the other side of the street, non the less it's quite an adventure riding a rickshaw and so far my favourite first.
Some times your first time can be confusing like going sari shopping in India. This is now a whole different experience to shopping. You get invited into the shop and by merely showing interest in wanting to purchase some saris you are treated like a VIP, you get offered water, tea. cold drink and even ice-cream while they run around the whole shop emptying god knows how many shelves, laying down sari after sari in front of you confusing the hell out of you because now you don't know which saris you should buy, so sometimes (and this can be dangerous) you end up buying more then you intended to.
Some first times you just wish you didn't experience it at all like using a toilet in India at the airport where the entire floor is wet, the worst thing is you don't know what it's wet with.
A first sometimes can also be something you see, like a house in one of the villages in India that belongs to your family built who knows how many years ago, with floors made out of cow dung and pillars made out of wood and is three stories high and due to lack of maintenance and ware and tare it looks really ancient almost like something out of a horror movie but yet it hold so much history, and not just any history but my family history.
A first sometimes can also be something you see, like a house in one of the villages in India that belongs to your family built who knows how many years ago, with floors made out of cow dung and pillars made out of wood and is three stories high and due to lack of maintenance and ware and tare it looks really ancient almost like something out of a horror movie but yet it hold so much history, and not just any history but my family history.
First times can also be a learning experience learning to eat new fruits, learning to polish up on speaking your home language, learning a different way of living, learning a new culture, the list is endless.
First times can be a lot of things but the more first times you have the more new things you see and learn, the more you open up your mind and the more of life you experience. Whether my first times are pleasurable or unpleasurable I'm glad to be experiencing first times almost every single day here so far, it takes away from the mundane routine that we tend to get stuck into when we back home and I think that it is import that we try to experience as many first time moments as possible even when we at home, actually especially when we are home living our routine lives.
First times can be a lot of things but the more first times you have the more new things you see and learn, the more you open up your mind and the more of life you experience. Whether my first times are pleasurable or unpleasurable I'm glad to be experiencing first times almost every single day here so far, it takes away from the mundane routine that we tend to get stuck into when we back home and I think that it is import that we try to experience as many first time moments as possible even when we at home, actually especially when we are home living our routine lives.