Trip

home country is Chile and she had been wanting to go back and visit It with us. During the summer that year my parents and my grandparents prepared a trip to go visit. As a child just hearing the word vacation would excite me, but I wasn’t prepared for the trials I would face when we would arrive in Chile. At the airport, the most boring part of the trip for a child, we waited for a few hours until our plane had arrived. When we got on the plane I was able to get the seat near the window so I…

In April of 2008 I went to Montana to a town called Whitefish with my grandparents and my mom. We stayed at my Grandpa Jack’s house with his wife Dolores. We stayed there over the weekend, I was kind of sad it wasn’t a long trip but it was still a good one. I got to meet my Grandpa’s sister Gayle’s son, his name was Jereme. I got to get to know him and we got along great. He took me around the town to see all the different little gift shops. Later that day we went to the mountains and we took a…

An experience of particular importance to me was when I went to Cuba. This was important to me because I met a new friend Anyelo, experienced the cultural and met nice people. One thing that made this trip particularly important was that I got to see how different people’s lives are in Cuba. There have been sanctions against Cuba since the 1950s making it so they do not have many things that we have in the US. Most of their cars are antique and have to use what they have to repair them. The…

uncle, and cousins in Denver, Colorado. After that, we left Colorado for Wichita, Kansas. Then, finally, back to home sweet home. These two trips to Colorado and Kansas left lasting memories of new people, great food, and engaging activities. Are they that similar, though? First, let’s analyze the breathtaking trip to Denver, Colorado. On this trip, I met my Aunt, Uncle, and cousins, went to see many majestic sights, and found new hobbies. We stayed at our Aunt and Uncle’s home, in which…

gathered enough money to go back and visit my dad’s old town to visit my grandparents. I was super excited I packed clothing, Tamagotchis, training bras and my wild rhino sneakers. We took a plane at LA to Oaxaca, Mexico and it was going to be a 4 hour trip. Like I said I went to Mexico once but don’t remember anything so I started imagining what is was like. As we got there we got our stuff and waited for our ride. My dad told us that my cousin was going to pick us and I imagined a limo or…

“Avery, do you know if you are you gonna be able to go to Mississippi with us?” The director of mission trips was asking me again. I replied “I don’t know yet, I want to though” nodding my head a little bit. I knew there was a reason for me to go on this trip because he had asked me so many times. Going on this trip was probably one of the best things that I could have done, it impacted me in so many ways, from my faith, to my self confidence, to realizing that what I had was way better than…

still huge issues world poverty rates are under 10% and that sounds like a great numbers but in reality that is over 720 million individuals. Individuals with lives that matter but they have no hope for the future. During spring break 2015 I took a trip with my church to Zacapa, Guatemala with the organization Hope of Life Guatemala. Guatemala is a very beautiful country but that beauty is just a thin veil; it doesn’t take very much digging to discover the overwhelming problem in Guatemala…

This trip would be my first excursion outside of the United States, and I am exceedingly curious as to how daily interactions are different or similar among the people of South and North America. I would room with a generous family and essentially be woven in…

Grandpa’s Getaway Trips Grandpa’s proof that we all need to take time off doing something fun because it relaxes the body and relieves stress from the real world. Sitting in grandpa’s office for an hour waiting for him to get done with his meeting listening to him explain how insurance works. Paul Rhodes which I also call Pops; my hard working grandpa owning his own business and making it to all of us grandchildren events for school. He rarely has time to himself because while working and going…

Prompt 1: Infusion of Culture in Robert Olen Butler’s “The Trip Back” Robert Olen Butler’s remarkable short story, “The Trip Back,” highlighted the cultural differences between Vietnam and the United States, narrated by the Vietnamese immigrants living in the U.S. The short story of “The Trip Back” tackles about a human condition from a Vietnamese perspective. The short story of “The Trip Back” narrates about a young man named, Khánh, picking up his wife’s grandfather in the airport and later…