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Going into this trip I really am trying to not have any preset notions about what we’re going to experience. I think my focus is going to be absorbed every second but I want to learn what can while I’m there. I have no idea when or if I will ever be back to this…
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Day one of going to the school: These kids are the cutest! Teaching today was absolute dream. I remember being nervous walking in and hoping things would go well. I was hoping the kids would like me or praying that they would understand the material, but each of them surprised me in such…
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On the very last day of our trip we all went to Alto de La Ballena, a vineyard in Uruguay. The owner, Paula Pivel, greeted us along with her daughter and two dogs. She told us that the vineyard was built on Sierra de la Ballena or The Whale Hills. She lost her job at…
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Our plane left Atlanta on a Friday evening. The flight lasted all night and we finally arrived in London around 8 AM, but it felt like 2 AM for us. Although I was exhausted, it did not matter. I was excited and ready to go. The first day of our trip was spent exploring the…
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After experiencing an exhilarating and extended day of traveling and touring London, my group was finally set out to travel to Scotland. We originally planned to arrive at the train station early in the morning and be in Dumfries by the early afternoon. However, things did not go as planned because they never do. As…
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Monday was the day we were supposed to go to the school for the first time. Due to all the corona-virus issues, we needed to make sure that we were still allowed in the school and was not able to go to the school Monday morning. Instead, we walked around downtown and went to a…
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Friday- we left Dumfries on a very early train this morning. It was a bit too early for my liking. We got to London and we split up into groups based on where we wanted to go. The group I was in decided that we were going to go to the zoo, but first you’re…
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After months of waiting and nervousness, I finally boarded the plane heading to Uruguay! The flight was a red-eye and I honestly thought we would never land, but we made it! The airport was completely different from the ones in the US, the employees were actually nice and helpful. We all exchanged some cash for…
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Until this trip, I had never been so far out of the United States and had certainly never taken a 9-hour plane ride. I was really nervous about it, but I enjoy flying and getting to see the world from above. While most of our flight was at night, the sun rose over South America…
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Prior to traveling to Uruguay, I thought I had seen a bunch of cattle. I have seen the large beef cattle finishing operations of the midwest. In South Dakota, I saw a huge feedlot. This is very different from Uruguay, where the beef is grass-fed. Central Uruguay is covered in grasslands, which is why it…