Lmao, sure.
I was looking into seeing if there were grants to go and volunteer abroad (since I went to Nepal and the experience was amazing/terrifying/horrifying/awesome in equal parts). Figured I'd look at Yahoo Answers just to see if other people had volunteered and found ways for their way to be paid to visit.
One of the answers? Someone going "Oh, I'll give you $1500 to come to Iran."
You can imagine my immediate (and continued reaction)
o.0 with a side of 'lmao, no buddy, I don't like being sold into slavery.'
Cause everyone knows that when strangers offer you a G and a half to go across the world via Yahoo Answers to a country generally considered anti-female (woo! burkas!), then you've know it's gotta be a gift from the fates.
/Sarcasm.
I can't even say I want to go ocean kayaking with a friend and her mother without my father spending the next month reporting any and all great white shark attacks in the ocean around Northern California. Particularly the couple who were attacked in their kayak (okay, we know the ocean is a scary as hell place, not exactly news). Can you imagine if I went "Hey Mom and Dad, I'm going to Iran! Some nice man asked me over the internet to go." Might as well tack on a "There might be candy!"
Sure, I would love to go and visit ancient Iranian archaeological sites, but no, I wouldn't go to Iran unless I got to take a taser, Alexander Skarsgard (for the pretty) and Chuck Norris. As we all know, nothing bad can...wait, no, Chuck would live but Askars and I would end up dead from ricochet from a bullet bouncing off Chuck Norris' roundhouse kick or something. Scratch that.
One of the answers? Someone going "Oh, I'll give you $1500 to come to Iran."
You can imagine my immediate (and continued reaction)
o.0 with a side of 'lmao, no buddy, I don't like being sold into slavery.'
Cause everyone knows that when strangers offer you a G and a half to go across the world via Yahoo Answers to a country generally considered anti-female (woo! burkas!), then you've know it's gotta be a gift from the fates.
/Sarcasm.
I can't even say I want to go ocean kayaking with a friend and her mother without my father spending the next month reporting any and all great white shark attacks in the ocean around Northern California. Particularly the couple who were attacked in their kayak (okay, we know the ocean is a scary as hell place, not exactly news). Can you imagine if I went "Hey Mom and Dad, I'm going to Iran! Some nice man asked me over the internet to go." Might as well tack on a "There might be candy!"
Sure, I would love to go and visit ancient Iranian archaeological sites, but no, I wouldn't go to Iran unless I got to take a taser, Alexander Skarsgard (for the pretty) and Chuck Norris. As we all know, nothing bad can...wait, no, Chuck would live but Askars and I would end up dead from ricochet from a bullet bouncing off Chuck Norris' roundhouse kick or something. Scratch that.