When it comes to spending time outdoors, my family prevails over all others. My dad sees every opportunity for a camping, hiking, canoeing, anything-outdoors trip and seizes it. Ever since I was old enough to walk, we have been traveling to visit national parks and hiking trails. I always enjoy camping with my family, but sometimes these trips don’t go as intended. This time, we decided to travel to Sipsey, Alabama. Briefer than our usual trips, we were only going to park, hike to a campsite…
Thomas My grandfather had always told me to if you don't pray 3 times a day your relationship with god will not be good. My parents had died in a fire when I was 6. But the one of the things i remember about the is that they they said that I should move to Cleveland. I tried to apply to some of the major colleges in Cleveland but I could not get into any of them so I applied to Ohio state. I Got into Ohio State I got a my major in regionalism and now I'm a rabbi at one of the major synagogues…
My family and I went on a trip to Pennsylvania, Florida for my little cousin birthday. My heart was rushing and my face was lit up from the excitement that filled the room. I asked my mom can I bring two of my friends Patrick and Camarius, she said yes and all thirty two pearls lined up across my face. It was my first time traveling with my family and my last time. I never want to witness anything like the trip to Florida with my family ever again. As we drove up, I sat in the hard back seat with…
Over the summer before my senior year in high school, I was given an amazing opportunity to go to Nicaragua. I was able to expand my spanish vocabulary by teaching a class of adults and children english, talking with many of the locals and venders. The service learning program I went with was Global Glimpse. We learned more about the day to day life of the locals in a third world country. For the service part of the trip we helped improve a local school.We redid the bathrooms, classrooms, and the…
days of my trip to Haiti, I will be staying with a house family in Delmas 83. Their house is roughly a twenty minute drive from the Port-au-Prince International Airport and around a forty minute drive from the orphanage I will be volunteering at. There are many museums, markets, craft villages, art galleries, restaurants, and shops local to the areas that I plan on staying in throughout my trip. There, I can meet and talk with individuals native to Haiti. I will be spending the most of my trip volunteering…
So, my trip from Los Angeles to Sacramento was very different from my other trips. Sure I once when on a road trip to Portland by land, but it was actually different. Our family basically had 3 days to go anywhere we wanted to, and we brought only a few supplies. On road trips, my family just goes yolo on the spot. Whatever is there to eat we eat whatever there is and everything we do it like what is available. So it started after getting out of our hotel. We drove for the next 1 ½ hour just driving…
This year again, I was preparing my trip to Chile. The holiday vacations were starting in a week, and like every other year I was leaving for Christmas. My desire for helping others in need, started when I was only 15 years old. That’s when I went on my first humanitarian trip, with my school. We left for Chile and built ten houses in two weeks. Since then, I have never skipped a year without going on this trip and building houses. The first couple of years I would leave in the summer vacations,…
Before this trip, I had never climbed a mountain and this was more than just climbing a mountain. So I wasn’t really prepared mentally or physically to go on a trip that required carrying a 40 to 50 pound pack over steep, rocky trails at elevations ranging from 6,500 to 12,500 feet. Since I had a history of asthma when I was in middle school, I was a little nervous as I wasn’t sure if I will be able to complete this trip without being pulled out from the crew half way through the trip due to my asthma…
mention going to California. We hadn’t taken a trip the summer before, and she said, “We ought to ride to California and take the PCH along the coast.” Probably, no one jumped up and started packing, but several certainly starting thinking. One mention leads to another mention which leads to final plans. For me, it was a dream I have had since I watched Then Came Bronson and spent my time reading On the Road. For all of us, we researched the trip and found places and things…
California Trip Ever since my mother had me she always talked about California and how she used to live there and how much she loved it there. She was always talking about going but we never got around to it. During my freshman year, about one week after the second quarter ending and over four years of planning, we decided to go. Our plane left from Minnesota at 5:35 AM so my dad and I just stayed awake because we were leaving our house to go to Minnesota at one. It…