Museum Trip Essay

The trip started with a bus ride. Forty students, who were each selected at random from the Mesa Community Dobson and Red Mountain Campuses rode together to the central location in Payson for the Leadership Retreat. Of which I was one of the selected. The result from this 8:00 am start time on a Friday in September was all due to the advisor for the trip, Kim Kochak. Months before the trip ensued Kim was brainstorming extensively with twenty other advisors from both campuses. The planning for…

and drove around slowly to see if that would snap the last bit onto the rim. Nothing worked. With two precious days wasted on a three-hour job, I collapsed Sunday night dejected. Not only was I unable to change a tire, which was important for the trip, my bike was unridable. And on top of everything, I had a long list of unfinished tasks what were supposed to be completed over the lost weekend. On Monday I gave up and took it to Les Schwab. It didn’t even take sixty seconds for them to set it.…

kids; for many of the members on the team that first hour in Agua Prieta was a huge eye opener. Short-term mission trips are expensive; the prices vary depending on the size of the group and location but some go up to $30,000. That is a lot of money for a one to two week trip! Some people think that money could be spent in more stewardly ways. They are wrong. Short-term mission trips are worthwhile when humbly and intentionally designed to accomplish the three goals of spiritual formation,…

Relationships are a part of life, some are good relationships, and some are toxic relationships. Elane had experienced two different toxic relationships. One with a friend, and one with a boyfriend. Both relationships had mentally drained her. "I can 't believe how stupid I was. I wasted two years of my life, " she said out loud to herself. She thought about how she tried and tried to make her friend, Haleigh, and her boyfriend, Joe, happy. She never got the same in return. Whenever asked,…

was on a mission’s trip. In September of 2013, my youth group had interviews for the teenagers who desired to join the mission’s trip to Colombia. I eagerly applied…

It was 5:45 Thanksgiving evening in Raleigh, North Carolina, I had the honor to interview my oldest aunt who is seventy- one years old by the name of Elois Hollingsworth Hayes. After a great family dinner my aunt I had a chance to sit with each other and reminiscence on her life and different aspects that described her life. We began by discussing her occupation where she was Miami-Dade County public school teacher, were she enjoyed most teaching students English and found most satisfying in…

The first time I went boating with my best friend seems like a happy story, a fun time that I will always remember. It definitely was, in the end, but the beginning was a bit rough. The very beginning of this story starts way back in 2007 at Table Rock Lake, with my family, on vacation. We were looking for something to do, and ended up deciding boating was the best choice. So a couple of hours pass by, we’re having a blast, but it’s getting pretty late so we decide to head in. Now here comes…

A Trip to Chicago Who would of thought that Chicago experienced the four seasons. Since I live in Miami, Florida we don’t experience the four seasons, so when I saw the colorful leaves for the first time I was in shocked because I’ve never seen that in my life. On Thursday October 19th, 2017 taking a trip to Chicago with my family was fascinating because we flew on an airplane across the United States, got to see my brother Christopher graduate from the Navy, and we took a tour around the…

During this trip, the students was exposed to nature all around them. They saw a lot of colorful leaves, trails and animals. I saw that the children were happy to be in the zoo because they were picking up leaves and asking questions about it. They also kept asking…

The Oscar winning movie Castaway directed by Robert Zemecks, starring Tom Hanks as Chuck Noland a worker from Fedex travels to different countries to guide them to get their packages out faster. On Christmas he is summoned to help with packages, eventually his plane crashes in the ocean, he is the only survivor he finds an island and lives on the island for about 5 years before an item washes on shore to help him home. Eventually he builds a raft and a ship finds him on his little nature made…