The year that my life changed….
There have been many things or things that I have done that have changed my
life; this one thing will change my life for the rest of it. The reason that
say this is because, I went on a certain trip that opened my eyes. The thing
happened was summer or 2013 I went on a mission trip to the Dominican Republic.
The reason that I say, that this trip changed my life is because I learned many
new things, how people live in 3rd world countries, and how to help
the needy.
The first thing that I knew that I
should go on this trip is because from half or little less of my life I have
been going on mission trips all around the United States and out of the United
States. Also from a every young age I have always wanted to be a doctor or have
something to do in the medical field. I thought to myself “prefect, this is a
chance to see how the medical field and see if it’s really meant for me.” So we
started the long and hard processes of being able to have enough money and
raising the amount needed so that I was able to go. So have many months of fun
rising, I had enough money to go.
So the morning that we left was
crazy, we have to be at the airport at 5 o’clock in the morning. We had extra
luggage because we need to carry so much medicine over to the DR. Of course so
how I ended up being in charge of the biggest and heavies bag of them all. Lets
say that by the time we got there I had a pretty good workout. The trip was
about 10ish hours but those 10 hours were one of the best 10 hours of my life.
We got so much free food but the most important thing was that I was with three
of my best friends Asher, Jazmine, and Chloe.
The after noon that we made into
the island of the DR was one of the most amazing sights that I have ever seen.
As we were coming in we could see the crystal clear blue ocean. With kids and
family enjoying there home. When we got off the plane we met up with some of
the locals and other missionaries, and a couple of pastors. So they told us as soon as we met they told us
that we had another 3-hour drive to get to our first location. So pretty much
there was a lot of bonding time on this trip.
So when we got to the first time we went around the town introducing ourselves to everyone. As soon as we did that it was time to go to work. The point of the mission trip was to give medicine and help build home of people that needed it the most. We would give them just about any kind of medicine since we had 3 doctors with us. We had median for about every illness in our bags. We would also built about 5 houses, one in each town. We went to a total of 5 towns in a two-week period. So that’s pretty much what we did.
The thing that really changed my life was that we were able to experience the hardships that people there had to go there in order to live there every day lives. It really makes you notice how grateful people in America should be, your pretty much blind to really how hard other peoples lives are in till you go to some place like this and experience it for yourself. It just showed me how grateful I am right now and how I should be more thankful for the things that I have and not complain about what I don’t have. In real life there are many more people in the world that are a lot worse then what I am here in the united stated. So that is what changed my life about this trip and every one should experience something like this in there lives.
