1. Last April I went on a mission trip to Mexico!! I was so excited because I’m adopted and that is were I was born. But I was also scared because I have heard all the stories about how hard it was to get me legally over here in the USA. Also I want to see what kind of culture I would have grown up in, so this was very important to me. I learned how lucky I am by going on this trip. In Mexico it was like t-shirt and capris warm weather and I could work up a sweat if I was out there working for a long time, and at the same time it felt so dry that it seems like I was always drinking water or something. On Thursday we (The team from my church) started on the 28 hour drive. Saturday we got to the mission house pretty late, so we had supper and then got ready to go to bed, but before we went to bed we learned that we had to go to church at 5:00am! How in the world am I going to be able to get dress, and brush my hair, and teeth in time! Because it was Easter they had a sunrise service which was nice because when we got there we could see the sun rise with it’s beautiful colors of red, yellow , and purple. After lunch we (the girls) started bagging beans for Thursday (I'll tell you about Thursday later). Monday we (the girls) made breakfast for everyone , (who hadn't eaten already), then we got ready for VBS. Me and a friend went to pick-up the kids from a Colonia in a bus that could hold about 60 people it was very squished, because there was people sitting on top of each other and people standing in the hall, but a kind of good squish. It was sad to see where these wonderful children are living; their homes look like little boxes on these small plots of land with no windows. Also my room is bigger then these houses that these children are living in, and they don’t have running water or electricity. A truck comes like every week to fill these big containers with water. Also a lot of people are looking for a job there, and need these jobs so they can support their families. Tuesday again we made breakfast for everyone and had VBS. That night we made brownies, we were having problems lighting the stove. It would just light the pilot, so Sam blew at the pilot the fire came at us (Sam, Miriam, and me) we yelled so loud that we scared Natalie. We were in shock for a couple of minutes, when the boys came in for a brownie we told them that they better appreciate those brownies cause we nearly killed our self’s for those brownies. Wednesday Natalie, Sam, Miriam, and I made breakfast, lunch. We bagged rice into 3lb bags, and flour into 3lb bags. On Thursday we went to the Colonia to give the food (the beans, rice, flour, and the feed my starving children food) to the people who live there. We talked to the people and asked how we could pray for them. It was amazing how to many of them where asking us just to pray for their family either because some one was sick or out of a job. Their culture is very family relative it was so neat to see this because we Americans aren’t like that. After that we ate lunch and went to the market. After that we went to a restaurant which the boys had a hot pepper eating contest. All the boys started to cry and say that they were not crying. When we got back to the dorms we start to pack our stuff because tomorrow we are leaving. Friday We all said good bye to everyone and start back on the 28 hour drive back home. When we reached the borderline I was scared and all those stories came back so I started to pray saying Dear God please clam my fears about going over the borderline you know my story about how hard it was for my parents to get me over it. So please just clam my fears Amen. And he clamed my fears in fact there was no problem, so we made it back home safely. I was so happy to see my family. I couldn’t wait to tell them and my friends about my trip. I was so glad I went and was able to see my culture and experience all of it. I learned how lucky I was to have a house, running water, a room of my own and electricity.