What Traveling Has Shaped Me

Do you like traveling to different places to go close to nature and experience something unforgettable that you will always remember in your life? As for me, I’m crazy about traveling because not only can I get an opportunity to travel to an another place, but I can really learn something after traveling to somewhere. Traveling can shape one’s personality, strengthen one’s will and widen one’s eye. Among all the places I have traveled to, only three places still remain deep inside my others, because they really make me change a lot, both internally and externally.

Admittedly, hometown is the place where one’s soul belongs, and Shenzhen, from China is my hometown where I was born and bred and it has made me become a more persevering person. Like many students, I was born in a ordinary family. When I was about 7, my father bought me a tennis racket. At the very beginning, I really had no feelings about it because I was quite lazy in my childhood. But somehow I did not know whether it was my father’s inspiration to me or just my own sudden interest in tennis, I began to grow quite attached to it and learn from a coach with other kids. After learning the basic skills, I became more crazy about tennis because I felt like I could leave any miserable things and pathetic feelings behind while playing tennis. As I became more sophisticated after a few years’ training, I began to participate in municipal matches and my original purpose for playing tennis has changed a little bit from play for fun to play to win. Therefore, I became more serious and diligent while training and the process became more tough and tiresome. Every time after training, I was sweating buckets and nvery worn out, but I never surrendered because I believed that hard work always pays off. Finally, I won plenty of prizes and I was really proud of myself because my experience demonstrated the meaning of practice makes perfect. As I stepped into senior high school, the ever-increasing burden of studies has occupied my more leisure time so I had less time to enjoy tennis. I had no choice but to go to cram school on weekends rather than play in the tennis court and hear other people yelling or screaming delightfully, smell the particular odour of tennis balls and feel the satisfaction that brings to me after a furious match. Generally speaking, thanks to Shenzhen that gives me the opportunity to play tennis and it really makes me become a more persevering person.

Traveling in Britain made me become a more polite and modest person. I traveled to Britain at the age of 11 in a summer camp with school. Britain is the first country that I have been to and I could feel quite a few differences comparing with China. One major difference is the way people take the bus. In Britain, a queue can always be seen in the bus station. However in China, the bus station is always chaotic, people just stand there randomly and when the bus comes, they will rush onto the bus as if they are escaping from an earthquake. In fact, I did not think much about it at first because at that time I was only a student from primary school. When I grew up, I gradually began to admire the way and attitude the British deal with anything, which is polite and systematical. Plus, they never show off anything they possess, no matter when they make a good fortune or get a promotion. Their behaviors really impressed me and have a deep influence on me. After going back to China, I tried to change many of my bad habits and became a more polite and modest preson.