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Eyes Opened
It was the morning of the trip. I was incredibly nervous yet excited at the same time. Forty kids were standing around waiting for what was coming next. Everyone started forming a circle to say a prayer before we left. We were about to head off to a foreign country, a third world country, for ten days. We were getting ready to go to Belize, Central America.
We said all of our goodbyes and stepped into the vehicles that would take us to the airport. The closer I got to the destination the more the butterflies fluttered in my stomach. There were no phones nor e-mail except for the leaders’ use of a computer for emergencies. Finally, after ten hours of traveling we took our first steps onto this new land. The air was hard to get used to because of how muggy it was. There they only have two seasons, the rainy season and the dry season. During our stay it was the rainy season. We then proceeded to pick up our luggage and wait for the bus to come and bring......

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