Monologue: Organizing a trip to an english speaking country

I´ve been asked to talk about how organizing a trip to an english-speaking country.

We can travel to an english-speaking country  for different reasons. We could want to visit our family (that is my own case, I travel often to USA to visit my wife's family),  for the pleasure of knowing new countries and new cultures, with the aim to improve skills in a language, a combination of the previous reasons and so on.

In any case we can take advantage to learn or to improve our English. The best way to do that is to travel by ourselves, without a tour guide. This has other advantages, it is usually more fun, you can go wherever you want and you avoid the contact with people of your own country. Moreover, this increases the options to interact with locals.

The steps to organize the trip would be:

- Taking into account your budget and if you have friends there, you should choose which places to visit within the country.
- Planning in which order you will visit the chosen places. In this timetable is important to spare time to rest and to visit new places that we will discover during the trip.
- Thinking where we are going to stay. If we are going to stay in a hotel, then we must make the bookings.
- Buying tickets to travel to the english-speaking country.
- Getting currency of the new country.
- And eventually, you have to include a bilingual dictionary in your luggage.

Also it would be interesting for you to learn something of the customs of the country you are going to visit. Locals will appreciate your attitude, and you will avoid gaffes and awkward situations.

To conclude, my recommendation is that we should consider one trip as a very important opportunity to enjoy our lives.

Monologue: Travel

Do you mind me talking about a monologue?

That is the first question I made to my english conversation teacher,  yesterday. He, a very polite person, answered that it would be nice to hear it from me.

Next, I'll try to reproduce the monologue as I told my professor.

I have been asked to talk about a trip, and how it was, and anecdote, if I would recommend it, and so on.

I have chosen a trip I made with my wife to Ecuador. It was very special for me because I met my wife's family for the first time.

We took a flight in Almería which made a scale in Madrid and we landed in Guayaquil fifteen hours later. It is a very long journey.

When we arrived to Guayaquil my wife's family was waiting for us. My first impression was pleasant, Ecuadorians are a very polite people. On the other hand I suffered a lot with hot weather, even though I am from Almería which is a sunny city located in the south of Spain. Other thing I enjoyed a lot was the food, they have many different types of tasteful fruits.

We spent three weeks in Ecuador. We travelled around the country, I can remember now that we visited Quito (this city is the Ecuador's capital), Cuenca, Ambato and Baños. We stayed two or three days in each city.

But the most special was to visit Galapagos Islands. We took a flight from Guayaquil to Galapagos which lasted two hours. I really love Galapagos, the wildlife in these islands is simply amazing. I had the chance of swimming with sea lions, I saw the most big turtles I've ever seen, birds with blue legs, whales which were raising ...I really enjoyed this part of the trip.

An anecdote was that we could see a turtle unique, its name was "old George". It was living in the Darwin Center to help turtles. Old George was very special because it was different from other common turtles, it had a very long neck and its eyes were positioned in a different way, but for me it had a gentle look in its eyes. One or two months later this turtle died.

It is likely that I would commit lots of cultural gaffes, but as I said before Ecuadorians are a very kind people and they made me feel very comfortable. My main cultural gaffe was that I always tried to kiss women twice, and they didn't like it.

In conclusion, as you will suppose, I will come back to Ecuador because part of my wife's family lives there.

But the point is that Ecuador is a worth place to visit, it has lots of attractions, if you like beach you can find much in Ecuador, if you like wildlife, that is the best place in  the world, if you like cultural tourism, you can find many interesting cities, and so on.