![]() ![]() ![]() By the end of the semester, the entire class was expected to go on a study tour of Japan, a trip that would've cost Intan about $2,300 USD. She told me about a time her daughter signed up for a Japanese language class. "I mean, what about those who can't afford to 'get lost' in a faraway country?" "Travel shouldn't be an achievement," she said. The whole notion smacks of white privilege and the kinds of inward-looking idleness that wealth can afford. ![]() Then you flip the book back to page one and start all over again.īut even though her book is about travel, and she's expected to appear at the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival this week in the heart of Indonesia's "find yourself" territory, Intan doesn't believe in all that "get lost and rediscover yourself" bullshit. ![]()
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