In other news, I finally came up with a plan for my final trip abroad during my service. I am going to Odessa, Ukraine, taking a rather meandering route through Romania and Moldova to get there. I decided after my last trip to Italy and Greece that I want to go someplace a bit less traveled that would offer a more intense experience. I want to have to struggle with the language, to order food that I cant read from a menu, and see places that no one really goes to. Im super excited. And to make the trip even more intense, I will be traveling solo, really throw myself out there. Hopefully I can set up some meetings with couchsurfers along the way to meet new people and have a place to crash, but I aside from that I dont really have a strong itenerary like I normally do when I travel. I will sort of wing it this time, and figure out transport as I go along. I wont be leaving until mid-june sometime, so there is still a bit of time to figure out the couchsurfing thing, but im sure it will be here before I know it.
(My tentative route from Malko Turnovo to Odessa)
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Cool. Yeah, traveling alone is really putting yourself out there. You have to figure out and decide everything. How have you been handling different languages on your travels? Do you take a phrase book, are there enough similairities to languages you know?
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Aside from the few phrases that are in the back of my lonely planet, I try to figure it out as I go along. A lot of times there are similarities to languages I know, or I ask someone im staying with to fill me in on the basics. It usually works out. If not, then I just point at a dish someone else is eating and say "I want that."
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