• Hawaii by birth • Armenian Lebanon by blood • New York by choice I love learning new languages. I have knowledge in Armenian, English, Turkish, Spanish, and Arabic.
Lifestyle, travel, and food I take pleasure in writing about my personal experience and sharing the little knowledge that I gain while experiencing life. I have a very unique perspective being from Hawaii where the dominant ethnicities are Eastern cultures, while being of Armenian Lebanese background.
I am motivated by my family, I have watched them build something out of nothing in a completely foreign land, while dealing with the stresses of their home, Lebanon, burning to ashes. They have sacrificed everything to provide me and my brother the life that we have and if I can be a ¼ of what they are I find that as an accomplishment.
Aside from where my ancestral roots are of Lebanon and Armenia. My favorite destination would be Athens, Greece – this is such a cliché answer but the food is absolutely delicious there, surprisingly they have the best coffee in the world, and it is just the most photographic location.
When I traveled to Costa Rica for my university study abroad program, we did a lot of adventurous things. One of them including zip-lining through one of the largest cloud forests in Central America. At the end of the zip line experience is a Tarzan jump, where you jump off a platform and just swing in the air like Tarzan. I was not really expecting such a finale but to top things off my instructions in Spanish were this “we are going to open the door, you will bend your knees and just jump” before I had any time to comprehend what they said I was already free-falling. It was an exhilarating experience, to say the least haha.
When I traveled to Costa Rica for my university study abroad program, we did a lot of adventurous things. One of them including zip-lining through one of the largest cloud forests in
Central America. At the end of the zip line experience is a Tarzan jump, where you jump off a platform and just swing in the air like Tarzan. I was not really expecting such a finale but to top things off my instructions in Spanish were this “we are going to open the door, you will bend your knees and just jump” before I had any time to comprehend what they said I was already free-falling. It was an exhilarating experience, to say the least haha.
Be open – whether that is while you are learning the language, trying the cultural cuisines, or meeting new people. You need to be open because you are experiencing how other people are living life and you will be startled what you end up learning.
The most underestimated thing you could imagine, but my “can’t-live-without- accessory is my neck pillow haha. I swear by this for long flights and just need that support when I am in a metal tank that is flying through the sky.
Actually, yes! I met my now-husband during my last days in Lebanon. I randomly met him and was upfront that I am going to leave in a few days so we may be wasting time, but when the time of my flight came I had gone on a few dates with him and just couldn’t leave. I had a gut feeling that this could be more, so I canceled my ticket and ended up staying for over a year after that.
• Ride a gondola in Italy • Trek to Machu Picchu • Float in the Dead Sea • Scale the Sydney Bridge • Swim in one of Santorini’s infinite pools • See the Big Ben and Eifel Tower while backpacking across Europe
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