Technology

          Elliot is concered about too much use of technology on a vacation.  He believes that it will ruin the trip because you will be focused too much on your smartphone not on your vacation.  He wants the reader to think about how too much technology can affect your vacation, and how a little technology can be good for your trip.  My original purpose of going to Australia was just to go to Australia, but now after going to 3 classes I have realized it is more about learning more about other cultures, and understanding our own culture by comparing it with Australias/New Zealand's.  I havent really though about what role technology will play because I thought the teachers would decide, but I think we should not be able to use anything besides our cameras because that is what I had when I went to Europe with my family and it was much better because I didnt have the urge to look at my cell phone.  Therefore I focused much more on the trip and not my life at home.  My thoughts after reading this article have not differed much because I already agreed with the points Elliot was making.  I believe that no technology is good for the trip.  Technology before the trip is great because you can figure out good things to do but if you want to change something on the trip, you should just explore because as Elliot said "vacation meant leaving the world you knew for a world you didnt".  I do not think teachers should set a strict boundry on technology for the trip.  I think they should leave it up for the student to decide what they want to do on the trip.  If the teachers were to set any boundry I believe it should be a very small amount of technology so that the students can focus on the trip itself.