I created the new story to use 7 economic principle. Do you want to guess which principle I use?
Do you want to hear a story about Jenny? Jenny is a girl who is studying Sustainable Energy Engineering at Simon Fraser University. When she talks to her friend Emma about making a plan for the upcoming spring break, which will last about two weeks, Jenny discovers that Emma will go to California for her vacation. Jenny realizes that she has never travelled by herself abroad, so she decides to travel to Switzerland, which is on her bucket list. However, she doesn’t have enough money, as Switzerland is one of the most expensive countries to travel to, and so Jenny must change her travel plans. She searches for information to boil down her choices of what country to travel to, and eventually chooses Spain, as it has some of the best Catholic architecture and savoury wine with various delicious foods.
After Jenny chooses the country to travel to, she has to decide the specific city to stay in. She wants to go to Barcelona because she loves Antoni Gaudi’s impressive architecture, but it is more expensive than other parts of Spain. She has to make a decision: should she go to Barcelona and enjoy Gaudi or should she go to the much cheaper Valencia? Is it worth saving some money in Valencia if she can not see some of the most beautiful architecture in the world?
Jenny decides to travel to Barcelona to see Gaudi’s church, Sagrada Família, so she books a Gaudi package tour as a day package. However, she would be interested in a night tour of Barcelona too. Luckily, the travel company which provides the package tours has a deal: if you purchase a Gaudi tour, you can get a night tour for only $50. Jenny has to decide between spending 50 more dollars on an additional night tour, or not and just going for the Gaudi tour. Jenny decides to spend $50 to receive the night view of Barcelona.
After Jenny chooses the city and package tour to travel to, it’s time to choose a hotel to stay at. When she looks up some hotels in Google, she finds that Hotel A offers a deal that includes breakfast for free if the customers stay more than a week, but Hotel B doesn’t provide any deals. Since Jenny plans to stay two weeks at the hotel, she accepts the deal from Hotel A and makes a booking.
Then Jenny needs a flight ticket to go to Spain. She explores flight tickets from Air Canada, Delta, and WestJet for Saturday, March 16: the first day of Spring Break. At that time, she notices that flights on weekends are more expensive than on weekdays.
Jenny likes to book Air Canada because the flights are usually more direct, but she couldn’t find a deal from them for weekends that fits her budget. However, WestJet does have a good deal, so she chooses WestJet to go to Spain even though it is via London. Despite WestJet being longer, Jenny is very happy because it gives her a flight ticket that fits her budget.
Eventually, Jenny reaches Barcelona, Spain. She appreciates seeing Gaudi’s buildings so much as well as all the other attractive architecture built in the 19th century. The architecture gives her lots of inspiration so even when she returns to Canada, Jenny cannot forget all of the architecture in Spain; it’s like an afterglow. It creates a dream in her to build environmentally-friendly architecture, therefore she decides to take architecture as a minor.