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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05043079906629867658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2394684028225352476.post-8306178992818897692014-06-13T21:56:00.001+02:002014-10-03T16:10:49.344+02:00What are the impacts of sex tourism on Thailand?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Are they negative, positive, or not there at all?</span></b></div>
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<b style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Introduction</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Asia’s tourism industry has developed immensely during the past 30 years, Thailand’s tourism also benefited from the growing interest in the Asian countries. Over the past twenty years Thailand has had one of the most rapid growing economic growth rates of any developing country in the world. The tourism revenue of $4 billion each year allowed Thailand to turn up as the economic leader in the Third world. Officials have said that the success of their tourism industry is mainly thanks to the ‘uniqueness’ of the Thai people, many attractions around the country and the friendliness and hospitality, no word is spoken about the sex tourism that brings many of the tourists to this country (Bishop, p. 67). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Each year Thailand is visited by millions of tourists from around the world. However, many people do not know that 60% of the visitors are male and that an astonishing 70% of those males are sex tourists. Thailand however does not seem to recognize the ongoing sex tourism in its country, the fact that sex tourism is being ignored can be explained by the following. The worldwide tourism industry believes that the success of a country in tourism can be measured by economic factors. All other factors are not taken into consideration; this is why it is believed that it is in the best interest of any country to censor the factors that have a potential negative effect concerning tourism. We could say that most of the general public does not even know about sex tourism and is only confronted with it when going to a destination where it takes place, a destination such as Thailand. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The purpose of this paper is to give a deeper insight of the impacts that sex tourism leaves behind in Thailand. Over the years many solutions have been found that were supposed to decrease sex tourism, all have been found not to be the main solution and the problem lives on. It is hard to find out the impacts that sex tourism leaves behind, because of the nature of the Thai people. They don’t show much emotion to the public and never show weakness since this is seen as one of the biggest mistakes you could make in their culture. What can be read in this essay is what kind of impacts sex tourism leaves behind, are they all negative, or are they maybe also positive, and, is there anything being done about the negative impacts?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Sex tourism</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">What exactly is ‘sex tourism’, often it refers to tourists who travel to specific destinations with the goals of purchasing services of local women and men. There are different varieties of sex tourism; it can range from illegal brothels to pornography, erotic phone calls, street prostitution or call girls (Nuttavuthisit 2007). Sex tourism is primarily done by men that come from more developed countries to underdeveloped countries such as Thailand. However, women from developed countries are also starting to travel with the goal of pursuing sex tourism, but visit different countries such as Brazil and the Dominican Republic (Herold 2001). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">In the last few years internet has been very convenient for marketing sex tourism and is accountable for the rise in sex tourism. Different websites provide sex seekers information on other sex tourists. They are able to find information on sexual exploits with detailed information on prices of sex establishments in different destinations and how to approach prostitutes. There are also sex tour travel agents that have their own guides and brochures with information on different sex destinations (Chow-White, 2006). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">There are many different descriptions of sex tourism, which one is the right one is for you to too decide. The most basic and most often used one is that sex tourism could be defined as a person travelling exclusively in search of sex; they often do this with pre-purchased packages that include the companionship of a local woman at a destination. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Another definition is that sex tourism is a travel experience where a crucial element of the holiday is that the tourists buy sexual services of the local population (Piscitelli, 2001). Sex tourism often gives the image of red light districts, exploitation and prostitution, but is often very different. Chris Ryan (2001) argues that tourists travel for a plethora of reasons which includes leisure, culture or business. However that as sexual beings the tourists could get into a situation where they find themselves in sexual or romantic encounters during their travel (Ryan, 2001). In less words, Ryan says that it is often a coincidence that these men have sexual encounters with locals. This description of sex tourism is in my opinion the one that is not correct at all, research shows that many of these men go to destinations with a clear goal; to have sexual encounters with a local. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Sex tourism in Thailand</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Sex tourism in some countries is promoted as actual sex tourism, for example in the Philippines. However in Thailand sex tourism is illegal and therefor ca not be promoted by the Thailand Tourism Authority. No one knows exactly where sex tourism started in Thailand, many say that it has its roots in Buddhism, or that it all started because of the informal handling of sexuality, they even say that the Chinese guest-workers imported it from their home country. The only fact that is true is that prostitution started to really get popular around the Vietnam War and has been increasing every year from then on. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The statistics concerning sex tourism in Thailand are very vague. It is said that one third of the sex workers are minors. However, there are no exact numbers that indicate how many Thai woman and children are actually working in the business. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Thai sex tourism is like a fantasy for many of the sex tourists. These pliant girls will do anything, and that is how it is promoted in the unofficial channels. But what is said before, the scale of how big prostitution actually is, is very unclear. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Many organizations working in Thailand are against sex tourism. They know that much of their revenue comes from this kind of tourism and that the loss of income will be dramatically but they would rather lose money than see an increasing rate of diseases and abuse because of the sex trade(Nuttavuthisit, 2007).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Sex tourists</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Sex tourists can be divided into three subgroups. Group one are the semi-skilled workers in their early 20’s that look for sexual experiences. Group two are the ordinary guys that are more interested in romance or an actual emotional involvement with one or more women. The last group is the businessmen, in this last group you find men who are looking for sexual experiences that are forbidden in their home country. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The tourist than again can be divided in four different groups. Number one are the men who go on sex tours, these are organized trips which are advertised in their home country. Then there is a group that travels independently but specifically looks for sex at their destination. The third group is looking for a holiday in paradise but have in the back of their mind that this includes doing thing that can’t be done at home or that are forbidden in their home country. The last group are the men that visit Thailand once but keep coming back because they are ‘addicted’ to the hospitality of the Thai and their friendliness, these man are often very lonely in their home country (Green, 2001).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The demand for sex tourism keeps on rising every day, sex tourists often get bored with a destination after visiting it a few times. They then start looking for new destinations with new women. Because of this demand, companies will keep on coming up with different tours and destinations. This is the way that sex tourism is spread globally; people get bored and move to another destination. If a law was made that would stop the sex tourists from booking their holidays, we would see a dramatic decrease of sex tourism in many destinations. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Negative impacts</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Thailand, just like many other countries has serious problems regarding sex tourism. However, it has been noticed to be a much bigger problem in Thailand than anywhere else since the sex services seem easy accessible. Sex tourism has become an attraction on its own with red light districts being promoted and recommended in several guidebooks. Even though Thailand’s main source of income comes from sex tourists; Tourism Authority Thailand is still against these businesses mainly because many of the providers of sex tourism have been working these jobs from a very young and unacceptable age (TATnews, 2010). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The demand for sex tourism increases every day, lately younger girls have been used more and more because it is believed that because they are so young they have no sexually transmitted diseases. Clients also find these young children attractive because of their innocence and their vulnerability, which is a horrible but true thought of many pimps that keep hiring these children. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">A big negative impact on Thailand’s tourism industry is the fast spreading AIDS. Tourists have been discouraged to visit the country because of the high amount of people with AIDS in Thailand (McCamish, 2002). Thailand is promoted as the sex capital of the world and many people come to the country because of this promotion. However, this brings the danger of AIDS and a higher transmission of this disease from sources that come from Thailand itself but also from many other countries. Off course sex tourism is not the only reason for AIDS spreading through the country this fast, but it is the main reason. The Thai government has even up till this moment not done a lot for this enormous health crisis. The only promotion on trying to prevent this disease was telling everyone to use condoms. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Another impact is that the image of Thailand, the world now sees Thailand as a paradise for sex tourism, because this is what it has been promoted as for numerous years. Because of this image people that are interested in this kind of tourism, and this is why they will keep on visiting the country, making it hard or even impossible to change their ways (Essays UK, 2013).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Positive impacts</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Many things can be said about sex tourism, but one positive thing did come out of it. Because of this kind of tourism, normal tourism also started growing. Thailand got more attention in the media, not just because of sex tourism, but also because of its natural attractions. Tourism grew rapidly and the economy grew with it. Much of this is because of sex tourism and the popularity it has with its visitors. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Employment opportunities have also grown because of this, businesses like restaurants, bars, hotels and massage parlors need people to work for them, many of the people working in these places also work in sex tourism, but, hopefully in a few years this will start changing to just one regular job. The sex tourists do not hole up into their hotel for their stay; they also visit other facilities at their destination. They usually spend quite some money which will help other Thai people that don’t work in sex tourism to earn more as well. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">When asking sex workers what another positive impact is of the job we get the unique answer of: ‘a better life’. What is seen often in many destinations is that women that work in the sex industry marry their clients that come from the more developed and rich western countries. After marriage they sex workers have a free entrance (visa) into that country and a way out of the life they have been living so far. Those Thai women don’t marry for love, but for a visa and earn entrance to this country not only for themselves but also for any children they might have and an easier access for their other family members (Brennan, 2002).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Sex trade is where sex tourism started originally, it made Thailand more popular as a destination because it was accessible and had no laws concerning the sex trade. Prostitution was legal in Thailand until 1960, this changed because the government of Thailand saw that sex tourism was no longer a proper and successful way of improving the economy of the country. This is why in 1960 the parliament came up with the Prostitution Suppression (Prohibition) Act. This act says that it is illegal for every person in Thailand to participate in the sex industry except the clients, for them it is still legal. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The last few years Thailand has been trying to get rid of the brand ‘sex tourism center’ by promoting the country as more of a family tourism destination. They for example promote other activities such as parasailing, bicycling, elephant riding, canoeing and rafting (No author, 2011). Even after the law made in 1960 change is still needed, because the sex industry now works illegal, they have to be more careful but the growth is still there and many sex tourists still visit the country every day. The Thai authorities have been working towards two different approaches for sexual crimes. Number one is to make a stricter framework that legally tackles different elements that have to do with sex crimes such as trafficking, prostitution and sex with minors. The other approach is to work together with civil society groups and local communities to protect and identify the victims so that they can be helped (Fox, 2010).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Even though, a lot of progress has been made over the years; improvement is still needed especially in terms of prosecution and enforcement. NGO’s have been trying to restart projects having to do with sex tourism with the Thai government but have been unsuccessful. The Thai government main focus right now is on promoting the economy and tourism. They made this choice even though a high number of high profile arrests of different foreign pedophiles have been made in Thailand and other parts of Southeast Asia. Many of the NGO workers are very disappointed in the choice the government has taken (Fox, 2010). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Sex tourism is viewed as a problem that takes place in a country, it is being said to be an issue for developing countries or a woman’s issue. No one says it is a problem that has to be addressed to the countries that supply the sex tourists. A different view on this problem is to look at it as if a constant demand from sex tourists. Even though policies over the years have been made, Thailand is powerless because of the continuous demand for sex tourism. It is believed that when the demand stops the supply of women will also stop. A minister in the Prime Minister’s Office in 1999 said “The Thai government does not and will not condone sex tourism. Although sex tours may bring in some foreign currencies, they are against all the moral principles we believe in. The sexual service business is an internal problem that we are trying to curb, but controlling the supply will not help much if the demand keeps pouring in. Thus, demand from foreign male tourists are the cause of the problem, and it should be dealt with in the countries that supply sex tourists” (Hongsakula, 1999). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">What we know is that the government did set up certain rules to try to regulate sex tourism in Thailand, but the rules are not as black and white as they should be. Thai officials often keep a blind eye when noticing sex tourism, this could be explained by the fact that those officials probably have family working in tourism and earn money of, of those tourists. I do not think these rules will help, sex tourism will stay. What is said earlier is definitely true, where there is demand, people will provide. Going to the source of the problem, the home of the sex tourists is something that should have been done a lot earlier in history. Now this problem is out of control and is almost impossible to regulate. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Sex tourism will keep on existing as long as tourists keep on looking for sex holidays. I believe it will not ever stop, the government always puts its priority elsewhere, even though it sees its country crumble under the diseases sex tourism brings with it. Yes, sex tourism is illegal and the situation for the Thai has improved; because almost no children are being used and trafficking has decreased in the last years. However, changing a whole country takes time, and as long as not everyone agrees to this plan and starts working with the officials, change will never come. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Thailand knows what is happening in its country. They keep a blind eye and act like the situation is improving, but in reality the situation is the same and the impacts sex tourism makes stay the same or are worse. The sad reality is that everything has become ‘normal’, the Thai people do not find it a shame or weird that women and men work in the sex industry. It is sad that many of the younger women don not marry for love, but the fact is that they do everything willingly and are almost never forced. They are not forced to have sex with these tourists, they are not forced to start a relationship and no one forces them to marry these men. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I am sooooooo excited; I'm finally
going to visit the UK. Can you believe that I've never been there, even though
it's super close to the Netherlands. Yes, I know what you’re thinking *YOU HAVE
NEVER BEEN THERE, oh my gosh..* <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Even though I'm
only going for three nights, I'm still really looking forward to it. I've wanted
to go for as long as I can remember. And not to forget it is one of the
destinations that is on the top of my list for an exchange or internship! I
really hope London lives up to my expectations, I can't wait to go shopping and
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I'm going at the
beginning of January so that is still a few weeks away, but this won't stop me
from looking up everything I can find on London. I need to find the best places
to shop, the things that must be seen on a first visit and not to forget, I
really need to drive in one of those red busses. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">If you can think
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I don't think that I would have ever seen these countries without this school
trip. The tourism in both of these countries is still underdeveloped but has so
many amazing opportunities. The nature is otherworldly beautiful and the people
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few years these places will be visited more often by foreigners. I can't stop
saying that people are missing out on something. Of course there are also the awful
stand-up toilets (see picture) and the beaches aren't what we say clean. But
that just means that there is room for improvement and that it can only get
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anyone else has visited these countries and what your opinion is, do you love
it? But the biggest question of all that has been strolling around in my head
since I left these countries is; what do the Albanian and Macedonian people
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US">Going into another
world, escaping all your daily pursuits and just pretend that your living this
life full of adventures. I have been thinking about writing this post for a while
but needed a bit more encouragement from my own side to start it. I love reading books, the hard covers where the pages get yellow, old and it all just
really smells like books are so nice. But I have to say that I really like my Ipad and the
app iBooks. I have about 100 books on there, different series and I can't wait
to read them all. </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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remove a few of them to make some room for others but I can't do it, every time
just before that moment that I really am going to delete some, I just freeze.
Anyone else has this problem? I just have this idea in my head that I want to
read a few of them later, and it would be a shame if they were gone, right?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">At the moment I'm
reading the final book in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, maybe you
know the series from the first book that was turned into a movie and came out
in 2010? I also saw that the second movie, about the second book will come out
in 2013, so excited to see what they've done with it!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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you a quick look into a list of my favorite book series, of course I know there are many great other ones, and I could make this post go on for ever and ever.. But yea, don't think that's such a good idea, so you can find a few of my favorites below. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Peachville High
Demons series, by Sarra Cannon.</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span lang="EN-US">The series exists
of 6 books; they tell the story about a girl that switches foster homes more
often than her own clothes. After getting kicked out of her latest foster home
she gets send to her last resort Shadowford home for girls. After a murder
in her new town she finds out that it was no coincidence that she got send there and
that she is not just a normal girl. </span></i><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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writing; it felt like I read all books in one breath. I can't wait for
her next book 'The trouble with goodbye'!</span></div>
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has 6 books; the first book is soon going to come out in theatres all over the
world in 2013! About the book, it's about a girl who lives alone with her mom in New
York. She finds out she can see things that no one else can and that there are
others like her. Her mom disappears and all she can do is trust these
strangers with the weird ability to see the weirdest creatures ever, just like
her.. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US">The book takes you to a world next to our own, after reading you would
almost think that it is real. That there really are werewolves and demons and
whole cities that we don't even know of. The last book in the series will be published in 2014. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span lang="EN-US">These books take place into a world where everyo</span></i><span lang="EN-US">ne <i>is born
ugly and once you turn 16 you are made beautiful. Friends and families get separated
but no one can wait to become beautiful themselves. The main character in the
book is a month away from her 16th birthday and finds herself in many
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reading these books I did not have high expectations, after the first 10 pages
I even thought about putting the book aside. It just didn't interest me,
but I have to warn you.. After the first chapter the story just drags you in,
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a series of 10 books about a teenage bean sidhe (banshee) Kaylee Cavanaugh.
Kayleigh tries her best to be normal even though the threat of the Netherworld
(a frightening, hidden for human's world full of mythical monsters that want to
possess her body and soul) is never far away.</span></i><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I love this book
because of the romance dilemmas between the main characters. The choices she
has to make while her life hangs on a threat. I can't wait for the last book;
it will come out in May of 2013 that is THIS MONTH!!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span lang="EN-US">The book follows
teenager Nora Grey, who has a normal life until she meets Patch a fallen angel.
The series exists out of 4 books in which Nora escapes dead more than
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series is a bit slow and needs some getting into, halfway through the first
book I really fell in love with the characters. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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series:</span></b></div>
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L.J. Smith<o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dark angel chronicles, by
Melanie Nilles <o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Divergent Trilogy <i>(last
book will be published in 2013)</i>, by Veronica Roth<o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fallen series, by Lauren
Kate<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Darkest powers trilogy,
by Kelley Armstrong <o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Caster Chronicles, by Kami
Garcia<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Shifters, by Rachel Vincent<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Unbound series, by Rachel
Vincent<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Unwind trilogy (<i>last
book will be published in 2013)</i>, by Neal Shusterman<o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Immortals, by Alyson
Noel<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Providence Trilogy, by Jamie
McGuire<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sea Breeze Series <i>(next
book will be published in 2013)</i>, by Abbi Glines<o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Existence Trilogy, by Abbi
Glines<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Vincent boys, by Abbi
Glines<o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Shadow Falls series<i> (next
book will be published in 2013)</i>, by C.C. Hunter<o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Selection Trilogy <i>(last
book will be published in 2014)</i>, by Kiera Cass<o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Wolves of Mercy
Falls, by Maggie Stiefvater<o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
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favorite writers are Abbi Glines, Rachel Vincent and Sarra Cannon. I can't wait
for all of their next books to come out! If you are a book freak like me you
might have noticed that I love fantasy books. It's just that most of the
fantasy stories are so much alike our own life but on the other hand are so
totally different. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Please let me know
if you think you have any books that I should read, I would love to hear your
opinion!</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Happy belated mothersday!</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The weather here in the Netherlands
is horrible, so I thought some nice pictures of the great day I had in Breda
last week would cheer everything up! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Breda is the city where I study ,and where I plan to live after this
summer. I really like it, there is always something to do, different festivals throughout
the year. It also has a beautiful park which is lovely for sunbathing, playing or
just hanging out.</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> If you find yourself in the Netherlands it is definitely
worth a visit. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It seems like a lifetime ago, but I went to Egypt in the summer of 2010, the year before all hell broke loose over there. It is a country where many have very outspoken opinions about, the same can be said for me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">When we where discussing Egypt as a possible holiday destination we got numerous not very positive advices from friends and family. The main thing everyone warned us about was the immense heat during the summer months. I guess all our friends weren’t joking, it is a good thing people can’t melt otherwise I would have been a puddle at the bottom of one of the pyramids!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">After a short flight of only 3 to 4 hours we arrived at our resort around 8 in the evening. In Egypt it already gets dark around 6 so we couldn’t really see anything when we first arrived in this humid country. The funny thing about all of this was that we couldn’t even find our way back to the reception the next morning because all of the darkness the evening before. In the morning we found out that our room was close to the sea and the beach (only 20 meters from each)! The first days we relaxed and went to our tour operator to see witch trips we wanted to take during our two weeks there. We decided to do the following:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">What I remember about the Luxor temple is how small it looked from where the bus stopped and how big it was in real life. The statues and walls were all at least 10 meters high; I couldn’t believe that people build all of it so many years ago. I can’t even imagine people building things like this right know! The details on some of the walls and statues already began to fade especially on the bottom, but when you looked up you could still see some of the colours and detailed drawings that once covered everything.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We drove the quads for about 45 minutes (after someone taught me how to press the gas properly). when we finally arrived at the destination where we would be drinking some tea and ride the back of a camel. After that we also had to drive back for almost an hour. On our way the group who was less advanced luckily could drive via an easier road, I still found it really hard so I can’t even picture what the advanced road looked like. On our way back we saw several big whirlwinds, it is fascinating to see how from a little burst of wind they turn into these big whirlwinds.</span></div>
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tour at the Egyptian museum, got a really nice tour in the most horrible English
you could ever imagine. Unfortunately we weren't allowed to take our cameras
inside, so no pictures. After the museum we went to the border of the city to
visit the pyramids. They were soooooo big, you hear stories about how massive
they are but it’s only till you've been there yourself that you can truly say
that they are BIG. It was so funny to see that the police rides camels there
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it would be nicer, but you can almost not see the facial features anymore
because it’s so damaged. Last stop was the palace of Nefertiti, the first thing
that comes to mind are those damn stairs that you had the climb and those
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The payments for two pieces of toilet paper.<o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The salesman who almost attack you to get you to
buy something.<o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The nausea I got because I had to get used to the
heat at all times of the day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The sexism, they always talk to men first and
don't even look at the women. <o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 16.8pt;">“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 16.8pt;">“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 16.8pt;">“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – </span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm; text-decoration: none;">Lao Tzu</span></div>
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new adventure! For the first time in my life I will be working abroad for
several weeks, this will all happen between the first of July and the end of
August of 2013. I can't explain how exited I am for all of this! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It all started when I was thinking about my plans for this summer; I
knew I couldn't go on a holiday because I had to save up for my trips with
school. So, what then? I started looking on the internet and found Selectcamp;
they offer tents and mobile homes on 50 different campsites through Europe, but
are mainly sited in Italy. I already told you that camping has been something
that I loved doing since I was young, so the idea of working on a campsite
would be amazing. Signed up the same day on the Selectcamp website and within
just a few days I received an email; if I wanted to come to the office for more
information and an interview. Amazing, such a fast response and of course I went!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Got a call quite fast after the interview, they said that if I wanted I could
be part of a large team of couriers all over Europe. The only thing was that
they wanted to hire me on a flexible basis. This means that I still don't know
on which campsite I will be based this summer, they will let me know only a
week or even a few days in advance. Reason is that I will be standing in for
someone who went home before the end of their contract. I will be going
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my mind I think that I will be going to Italy, since most campsites are there,
but who knows maybe I'll go to France or Spain. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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you have camped before, you probably saw them several times during your
holiday. As a courier I represent Selectcamp on the site, we work in teams of 2
till 6 colleagues and we try to make the holidays of our guests as carefree as
possible. We make sure the accommodation is clean and complete, we also answer
any questions the guests have and if there are problems we try to solve them.
We check the guests in and are there for the check out and every night we do a guest
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I found this image on Facebook today; I have seen this movie a million times but never really saw the meaning behind what they were saying. Of course, when you are a little kid you just love the songs and the characters and you don't really notice what they say. All I could really remember from this movie was that his dad died and was murdered by his uncle, how sad is that!<br />
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<li><span lang="EN-US"> </span>Help and love others. - <i>Snow White</i></li>
<li>Stop wishing and start doing. - <i>Aladdin</i></li>
<li>Be true to your heart. - <i>Mulan</i></li>
<li>You are not alone. - <i>The Lion King</i></li>
<li>Accept what you really are. - <i>The Little Mermaid</i></li>
<li>Build your trust. - <i>Pocahontas</i></li>
<li>Make the best of every situation. - <i>Cinderella</i></li>
<li>Follow your own advice. - <i>Alice in Wonderland</i></li>
<li>Beauty is only skin deep. It's ok to be different. - <i>Beauty and the Beast</i></li>
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clowns, bring in the magic in the air and I’ll sing you a song. I'm calling all
dreamers won't you ever wake up, my sweetheart.</span></span><br />
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To me some music gives me a feeling of floating, maybe that's why I also like reading. It gives me the feeling that I step into another world and escape from reality. You could say that music and books are a bit of the same to me, they both tell me a story, something that I can dream of.</div>
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The lyrics in this post are from a Dutch singer/songwriter called Dinand Woesthoff; the song is for his wife who died of the horrible disease cancer. It's so brave that he put all of these emotions in a song, you can feel the pain and loss, it's not something I would be able to do.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit;">I’m proud that I
can say; I was born and raised in The Netherlands. I really love this
country! We Dutch people have a lot of let’s call them oddities, because a
stereotype sounds so negative. Because I live in this country I could never really see what was to typically Dutch. A few of my international friends
showed me what they think is Dutch and together with them I found numerous more
oddities. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we put them on bread, biscuit, ice-cream and pancakes. We eat them with butter
and without, which causes them to all fall off because it doesn't stick. For
the people who don't like chocolate we also have them in a million colors with
different flavors. The beautiful thing of these sprinkles is that people eat
them at every age; I ate them when I was 4 but my parents who are of
respectable age, also still eat them. Unfortunately, you can't really find
these sprinkles outside the Netherlands.</span></div>
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of hair gel in there and try to get it as flat as possible. I don't know who
started it, but I do know that almost every Dutch guy does it. Maybe it's time
for an intervention and tell them that they don't look sexy with hair glued to
their head?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Change</span></b></span><br />
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something that is really hard for most Dutch, it is easier to say 'that's just
who I am', than to say 'I will try to change'. We always live in the negative,
somethings are just how they are and are not supposed to change, my international
friends showed me that things can change. Us Dutch should just try a little
more once in a while.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US">It's impossible
not to hear this word when you are in the Netherlands. We find everything
'gezellig', there is not a translation to English for this word. I can try to
describe it but it will never describe the true meaning, but I will try
anyways. It's something like fun, cozy, happy, sweet, nice, beautiful and then
all those words together. </span>I know it sounds weird..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Orange crazy,
that's what we are! Especially on certain days such as Queens Day (now Kings Day),
with soccer events, the Olympic Games and other typically Dutch events. It's
like the whole country went bonkers on these days. Some even dress up their
houses, bikes, cars and dogs the things that can turn orange are immeasurable.
You can also find orange food in supermarkets and you can't find a store that
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In the end I have to say that even
though we look crazy, the feeling of togetherness on these days is enormous. It
really feels like we are one country and everyone is the same. You are not
crazy for dressing up because everyone does it, you can't go overboard on these
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05043079906629867658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2394684028225352476.post-34858594826849252782013-04-27T12:32:00.000+02:002013-05-17T22:08:19.745+02:00Albania<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
At the end of May me and all the other students in my year will be visiting Albania. Doing some research I found out some interesting facts.<br />
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<li>There is nog official 'drinking age' in Albania, for example the Dutch legal drinking age is 18, and in the USA it's 21, so how does that work in Albania?</li>
<li>Shaking your head from left to right means 'yes' while nodding means 'no'.</li>
<li>There is only 1 heliport in Albania, so the whole country has only 1..</li>
<li>Albania has never won an Olympic medal.</li>
<li>About 95% of the rain falls during winter months.</li>
<li>The Albanian people call their country 'Republika e Shqiperise', this doesn't even sound like Republic of Albania.</li>
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After my return at the beginning of June I will let you know what I found out about this country. I am very curious if the habitants of Albania often have miscommunications with the visitors from other countries. Especially with the yes and no shaking of their heads, without noticing you use it a lot.. So we will see!<br />
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During my life I have visited some places in the world and I loved each and every one of them, but I'm still hungry for more. The world is such a big place and there are so many places that I still need to visit. I have this list of countries that I want to visit and I believe that all of these places have something special.<br />
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<li style="text-align: left;">Canada</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Australia</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">New Zealand</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Sweden</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Greece</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Brazil</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Thailand</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Mexico</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">The United States</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Russia</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Japan</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Ireland</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">The United Kingdom</li>
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