School Trip Research Paper

As a freshman in high school I had only been to 3 different states, Michigan included. My family didn’t really have the money to take spring break trips to Florida every year, so I never really traveled all that much. The world was a mystery to me, all I knew was what I learned in school so far, which really wasn’t enough. My sophomore year I took a world history class. This class is what really opened my eyes to everything that I hadn’t seen. The teacher was kind of $famous to the students. She had traveled to the places she was teaching us about. She wasn’t just giving us the information out of a textbook, she was telling us real things that she experienced. The thing about this class was, every year, she picked a group of students to go on a trip to a different country. My year there were two trips. One to three different countries in Europe, the other to Australia and New Zealand. After hearing about these trips, I knew that I needed to go. I was an eligible student for the trip, the only problem was the money.
I knew that it was expensive, but I asked my mom anyway. We were in the car coming home from the store. She already knew this teacher because my older sister had her the year before. When I mentioned that class, she had to know I was going to ask about the trip. I tried to be casual at first, just …show more content…
If I ever go back to Europe, I am going back to Italy. We rode on a bus to get around, so we got to see the features of the land more than in the other countries. Everything was so beautiful, I couldn’t believe we were just driving down the street. The most amazing part of the whole trips was climbing to the top of Mt. Vesuvius, the volcano that buried Pompeii. The view from the top was looking over Naples, and then out onto the the Mediterranean Sea. For a second, I forgot that I was behind me was the crater to a volcano that killed thousands of people. Even then, I was surrounded by beauty, and it was