*** 6분영어 (Microadventures!) > 중.고등교육 게시판

6분방 친구들 ~

새로운 한주 의 시작 월요일 입니다.

오늘의 주제는 microadventures 입니다.

처음에 내용을 읽기전에 제목만 보았을때에는 무슨 얘기일까? 감이 잡히지 않는 제목이었는데

글을 읽고 보니 매우 흥미로운 주제인걸 알게되었어요.

여행 좋아하시나요?

항상 일상을 벗어나서 어디론가 멀리 훌쩍 떠나는 여행을 상상합니다.

그렇지만 시간적, 공간적, 경제적 제약으로 실행에 옮기기가 쉽지 않죠.

여행이나 모험이라고 생각하면

일단 일상에서 벗어난 새로운 곳, 멀리 차나 비행기를 타고 가야하는곳, 뭔가 근사한 것이 있는 유명한 곳 등을 상상하다 보니 여러 현실적인 문제로 막상 실행하지 못하는 경우가 더 많아요.

오늘의 주제어를 만들어낸 분도 우리가 생각한 그런 여행이나 모험을 많이 했던 분인 것 같은데

microadventures라는 신조어를 만들어냈고 이러한 모험을 통해서도 기존의 우리가 생각한 여행이나 모험에서 체험한 즐거움을 충분히 느낄 수 있다는 것을 증명했다고 하네요 ^^

* 스크립트 요약 *

Alastair Humphreys has coined the phrase 'microadventures' to describe this.

'To coin' here means to use a word or phrase that no one has used before.

Now he's someone who goes on big trips and expeditions to the four corners of the globe and writing books about his adventures. But he wanted to prove you don't have to go far to find adventure.

How did he describe his first microadventure?

Alastair Humphreys, adventurer

I'd been doing big adventures for years and I had this hunch that you didn't need to go to the ends of the world to have some sort of adventure. You didn't need to be in beautiful Patagonia to have the spirit of adventure. So I decided to try and prove my theory by doing the most boring, ugly adventure I could think of. And I came up with the idea of walking a lap of the M25 in the snow in January. And time and again as I walked round the M25 I just kept thinking to myself this experience is exactly the same as the four years I spent cycling round the world. Smaller, of course, a bit silly, but definitely felt like an adventure And that's when I really started to come up with the idea of microadventures.

It may not be glamourous but it is an adventure.

He walked around the London orbital motorway – called the M25 – to prove his hunch that you don't need to go far to find adventure.

Just getting out on your bike and exploring somewhere in your locality that you haven't visited before is an adventure. And how about camping?

You don't need to go far for a camping adventure – and being out a night really adds to the sense of adventure. That's what Alastair Humphreys believes…

Alastair Humphreys, adventurer

We humans are so boring these days – we so rarely spend time out in the darkness to see the stars and to see how the world feels different by night. I get a little bit nervous still – I still imagine ghosts – but that's part of the charm of making a little frisson of adventure. And then in the morning the sun comes up, the birds sing, jump in a river, back on the bus, back to your desk for 9.00.

There is an adventure to be had on your doorstep – that means close to where you live.

only a small adventure Rob! Unlike an adventure round the circumference of the Earth.