Foreign Language Faux Pas

I've made mistake #4 before! 

When you learn another language or travel you're bound to make mistakes! Click here to check out The Telegraph's Top 10 foreign language faux pas in pictures, then email your response to one or more of The Hot Tamale Activities below to bordner@cityhigh.org or akhand@cityhigh.org.

• Pick the top 5 faux pas that you think are the funniest/most embarrassing/ most important. Why did you pick those?
• Are there other faux pas that you know about that aren't on this list?
• Write about a time you experienced a cross-cultural mis-communication. What happened?

How has travel affected your life?

One of my favorite travel blogs is The Art of Non-conformity because the author, Chris Guillebeau, blogs about traveling to all 193 countries in the world!

Last month he wrote a great post about how travel has affected him. He said

I’ve learned as much from the mistakes and misadventures as I have from the times that everything went as planned. I can’t imagine what I’d be doing if I hadn’t pursued life outside my doors and beyond my comfort zone.

Click here to read the rest of the post then complete the Hot Tamale activities by emailing bordner@cityhigh.org or akhand@cityhigh.org your responses to the following questions

• Where have you traveled? What did you do? How has travel affected your life?
• Where do you want to travel? Why?
• Read other parts of Chris's blog and summarize what you've learned.