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19 Décembre 2014 , Rédigé par Laurence B Publié dans #Société

Man finds woman with same name as ex to join him on round-the-world trip

Jordan Axani offered free tickets that could only be used by someone called Elizabeth Gallagher after he split from girlfriend

A trip = un voyage
Free = gratuit
To split from girlfriend = se séparer de sa petite amie

A Toronto man who made headlines last month by offering a free round-the-world air ticket to a woman with the same name as his ex-girlfriend has found Ms Right. Jordan Axani, 28, and his then girlfriend, named Elizabeth Gallagher, booked heavily-discounted round-the-world air tickets in May, but their relationship ended and he didn’t want her ticket to go to waste. The ticket had a strict no-transfer policy, but since passport information was not required when booking, it can be used by any Canadian named Elizabeth Gallagher.
To make headlines = faire les gros titres
To book = réserver
Heavily-discounted = à tarif fortement réduit
To go to waste = se perdre, aller à la poubelle

Axani posted his offer last month on the popular Reddit social media website, and received thousands of emails, including 18 from actual Elizabeth Gallaghers with Canadian passports. He’s now chosen his travel mate, Elizabeth Quinn Gallagher, a 23-year-old student and part-time office administrator from Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia. “It’s strictly a platonic trip. It’s going to be great,” Axani said. At first the new Elizabeth Gallagher thought a trip with a stranger whose ex-girlfriend’s name is the same as hers was crazy but she hit it off with Axani after talking on the phone with him for hours.
His travel mate = sa compagne de voyage
Part-time = à mi-temps
To think – I thought – thought = penser
To hit it off with = bien s’entendre avec

“It definitely did seem a little bit creepy at the beginning but now that I talked to him it’s less creepy and more awesome,” she said. She already has a boyfriend though. “This is totally sort of like as friends,” she said. “I have a pretty serious boyfriend. We’ve been together for a while. We’re planning on buying a house and we have a puppy, so yeah I’m not really looking for anything at all.” She acknowledged her boyfriend isn’t thrilled. “He understands that I’ve always wanted to travel so while he’s not happy I’m taking off for nearly a month at Christmas with a random guy he’s smiling through it,” she said.
Creepy = qui donne la chair de poule, effrayant
Awesome = super, génial
A puppy = un chiot
To acknowledge = admettre, reconnaitre
Thrilled = transporté de joie
A random guy = un type au hasard

Axani, who works for an international real estate development and advisory firm, said the tickets were purchased for a couple of thousand dollars, but their cash value today would be around Canadian $5,000-$7,000 (US$4,400-$6,200, £2,800-£3,965). The trip is scheduled to start on 21 December in New York City and continue on to Milan, Prague, Paris, Bangkok and New Delhi before ending in Toronto on 12 January. Axani said that after the break-up he deferred all other planning for the trip, such as making hotel reservations.
To purchase = acheter
To schedule = programmer, prévoir
A break-up = séparation, rupture
To defer = reporter, différer

But since the story became public, Marriott International offered to put him and the new Elizabeth Gallagher up, in separate rooms, during their trip. Axani said the trip will be documented and shared online. He said that he was so moved by some of the emails including one from an eight-year-old boy who said he was going blind and wanted to see the world before that happens that he and his brother created an organization called A Ticket Forward to help people who want to see the world but lack the finances to do so.
Documented = documenté, illustré et commenté
To be moved = être ému
To go blind = devenir aveugle
To lack = manquer de