New age travellers are a group of people, normally young, that travel between music festivals and fairs.
They live in community and share everything, such as beliefs, clothes, home...
Their houses consist in vans, lorries, buses...they are nomads. They also make use of improvised tents, tipis...
Most of them choose this lifestyle because of the desire to change established values, the desire to change the world, religious and political beliefs...
They earn their living by doing manual and street jobs, like singing, representing, doing piercings...
As far as I’m concerned I don’t know if I would like to choose this lifestyle, because I would love to go on trips to areas of outstanding natural beauty. It’s an excellent way of exploring an area, it’s an opportunity to visit cultural places. Moreover, it’s an authentic way to interact with local people and more important of all, we can be in perfect harmony with nature and that is the reason why most of those people are vegans.
On the other hand it’s a difficult life because they don’t have basic health care and stable jobs. Furthermore, they don’t have a comfortable house or normal clothes and most important of all they normally don’t go to school.
In conclusion, I will never be a Peace Convoy because for me to have basic health care and go to school are essential to grow up with all the necessities that we need to live like a normal and happy teenager.
Bárbara Machado, 1101
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