BLOG#6 : My Life in Ruins

“My Life in Ruins”

Firstly, to become a tour guide you need flexibility, patience, a great personality and as much data as you can get to answer the questions. Good guides are curious about new things and their surroundings. They like to meet new people. They should be sensitive to the needs of others, well-organized, and have in-depth knowledge of the site.

There are also various characteristics of a tour guide including punctuality, dresses well, speak loudly and clearly. A tour guide also needs to offer necessary information for tourist and make the tour vibrant or dynamic. It's probably good to learn other languages too. Moreover, they should have sense of humor which can bring people closer together. It is important to be as entertaining as possible to make travel enjoyable instead of stressful and unpleasant. 

Recently, I have watched ‘My Life in Ruins’, a romantic comedy film set amongst the ruins of ancient Greece. The movie locations include Delphi, Olympia, and many places in Athens. The story is about ‘Georgia’, a Greek-American tour guide who lost her job at a university in Athens. She is leading a tour around Greece with an assorted group of misfit tourists who would rather buy a T-shirt than learn about history and culture. 

She hates her job, fusses because she's being assigned a second-class tourists, and finds fault with everything in Greece that isn't at least 2,000 years old. Everyone tells her that she has lost her kefi, a Greek word meaning joie de vivre or mojo or the ability to not annoy the audience. She just needs to relax and get laid and stop worrying her pretty head about things. 

In the film, there are various kinds and characteristics of the tourist. She's scarcely hanging on as a tour guide because she really believes tourists come to Greece to learn about the ancient culture or at least they should. Her group is a disparate lot, including drinking Australians, the fussbudget Brits, the nice Canadians who melt into the scenery, the hot, divorced Spanish ladies, and those loud, stupid or boring Americans. 

In a clash of personalities and cultures, everything seems to go wrong, until one day when an older traveler named ‘Irv’, ‘dispenses good advice and shows her how to have fun and to take a good look at the last person she would ever expect to find love with ‘Poupi’, her Greek bus driver. Irv comes across as one of those magical wise characters that dispenses homespun wisdom. Other supporting characters are fitfully funny, but more often grating.

Lastly, ‘My Life in Ruins’ is a romantic theme with pictures of various beautiful sights of Greece. It comes up with an opinion that no one can determine life as planned at all time. Because life always has new stories without prediction. If I am a guide tour, this will helps develop myself to be a proactive thinker who seems to have everything figured out beforehand and can better deal with problems. I will be ready for all situations along the trip and cope with various kinds of tourists as well. It is important to know exactly what you are looking for and what you are going to do, whatever, DO IT YOUR BEST!!! 

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Thank you very much!