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Nowadays, we can confidently claim that the Internet has appeared to be one of those great inventions which were predicted for the third millennium by many prominent and far-sighted scientists, philosophers and science fiction writers of the past. Indeed, the World Wide Web has provided the modern mankind with plenty of amazing opportunities. Only a century ago even the most insignificant assumption that something of what today is absolutely ordinary to us can be possible in principle would be considered either as a childish fib or, probably, as another example of military inventiveness of superstates.

If you have chosen backpacking as the way to spend your free time, then you are either at least a second-time backpacker who really loved the experience, or someone who is simply fond of trying such challenging activities like this. Probably, you even appear to be one of those guys who say to themselves: “I always find time to write my paper, but I can never find time just to live. I’d prefer the latter”.

In such a big world like ours, it’s quite easy to get lost while choosing your own right way and decide which of numerous opportunities you want to and can take. So often might your nearest and dearest talk about how vitally important it is to find yourself and live your long life happily. However, hardly anyone has ever told you what exactly you should do in order to accomplish these standard tasks, which are believed to be set for each human being as soon as it comes into our world.

So many nice things have been said, written and sung about travelling and travelers. Historians would tell us that many hundreds of years ago travelling used to be a destiny of those who had nothing to lose and could easily leave one place for another in their searches for themselves and, of course, for a better life. Most famous scientists and researchers of old days also travelled for months and years in order to make their great discoveries and write books that are still of high value.

Indeed, a modern student has nowhere to escape from the system of grades, which is applied at most types of schools almost all around the world. Although nowadays prominent experts of the world’s most powerful and influential educational centers are rumored to have started implementing the idea about substituting grades, as the indicators of students’ progress, for something less definite, still nothing is ready enough to break down the present principles for effective evaluation of a student’s achievements.