A trip of university students

Just back from a trip to Exmouth. People joining the tour were all university students. There were two german girls, a pair of French, a group of American girls and a group of Austrians. I went with a girl from Hong Kong. She is actually on the same exchange programme as I am, and we are classmates in Hong Kong.

Wayne, an Australian man, was our tour guide and driver. He was a good man and he took care of everything including our meals. It was unfortunate that he did not have a microphone in the bus, so he could not tell us so much that he could have told.

When I was talking with him in Coral Bay, he said we were very quiet. He said it might be because we were a group of university students instead of backpackers. Backpackers were usually more sociable and talkative, according to him. We did not even have a cheering leader who could bring the people together. That's why we seperated into groups, and seemingly it was according to our own nationality.

I agreed with him. There are many kinds of university students. Apparently this group of people joining the tour was not very interesting. They did not have the intention to talk with the other people. I mean groups of people were found in our tour and they seldom talked with each other.

I believe one of the key element which makes a tour more fun is the people I am going with. It is always interesting to talk with people from places all around the world and share the experiences of touring or life. This tour lacked this sort of communications. Sometimes I felt people were not very friendly to the others, which was like a kind of self-superiority. Maybe I was too sensitive to this, so I was not very happy with this.

The other thing was the people in the tour were quite fussy. They hardly accepted a relatively poor accomodation, like they were not even willing to go to have a shower despite a sufficient supply of water. In fact some hints were already given by the flyers before the trip started. We were told to bring our sleeping bag, which meant it could be somewhere in bad condition. Nevertheless we did not really need to use it, but only the night with the poorest accomodation that we did not have any bed sheets or cover.

Perhaps I was too extreme about this, yet this was only one of the examples. I told my friend that I think the best people might be found in universities, and probably the most spoiled people as well.

Regrettably I am also one of the university students. *Winky.