March 17, 2010 – The Excitement

WOW! The journey to get to our destination wasn’t easy and extremely loooong…

First off our flight to UB was cancelled, and we had to stay at the airport for a couple of hours, but it was resolved calmly by our teachers and got to stay in a really nice hotel for the night. =) After the 10 hours flight we weren’t at our destination yet, we still had to 3 hours of bumpy flight to get to UB, then 4 more hours on a train to get to our village. When we got there the villagers gave us a warm welcoming, which mean we mean all the travel worth wild to see the bright smiles on their faces.

Their village was nothing of how I pictured it; it was wayyyy more developed than I thought.  May be our school might not have helped them all as much as I thought it would. I guess it is the thought of showing that we care is the most important.  Also the opening ceremonies had shown me that they really do want to show their appreciation of us coming over to build them a school. They were very =) that we flew across the world to their place to show we care.  In the opening ceremonies I noticed they researched on the things we like and fused both our cultures together, making sure we are enjoying ourselves. Through our discussions at night I was able to reflect all that has happened and not just let it go by like a breeze and not absorb anything from it. The idea of coming together no matter what culture, what ethnicity, what background is mind blowing. We interact with each other as if we had known each other for the longest time and we don’t search for differences but similarities. I think what the night time discussion I am able to recognize all the things happening.