Mexico

Mexico
Waking up at 2:15am to take pictures and say good bye for a week. The bus pulled away with a tear and I’ll miss you. The smell of the beach set in as soon as we landed. We knew we weren’t in the states anymore. The air was misty and the humidity was over welcoming. All the things that could go wrong did. There were 25 of us that went on the trip of a lifetime. The changes of driving traffic, food and culture were almost enough to make the tears return.
The plane ride that started an adventure, that both taught me what how to another country works. There customs were different and the food was different. Taking 50 suitcases through immigrants and customs in Mexico was kind of scary. Walking through looking like an AMERICAN, I was getting looks of you don’t belong. Walking to the scary button that was just chance if you got searched or not. Me, of course got a red light which meant that I had to have everything searched, suitcases included. I take the long walk of oh no… Trying to put my suitcases on the platform was a task in its self. The suitcases weighted 35 pounds each and I am just a little girl. Finally, after 5 minutes of struggling, I got them both up on the platform and the search began. Going through each bag throwing things around in the suitcases my heart dropped when he pulled an item out that I didn’t even know what it was. He asked me very politely what it was I replied… Nail polish remover and nail polish. He said ok, well next time make sure they are not opened. I apologized and he said I was free to go. 30 minutes of searching was finally over.
Waiting at the airport for our buses for 4 hours to take us to our home for a week, finally the buses arrived and we loaded the suitcases and we were off. Sitting next to my best friend, who had taken this trip for the last three years, we were talking, and when we almost got hit due to the fact of Mexico driving is crazy. This was one of the many times that we almost died to the fact of Mexico’s crazy drivers and roads. Finally getting to the hotel we settled in and we were off to our rooms to take showers and get ready for dinner.
Dinner was yummy, and then it was off to bed because we had to get up super early the next day to start the reason why we came. There are 3 things, I must tell you before I go any farther. 1st this trip was a mission’s trip. 2nd the room, I was in was the if you got sick room go here (which people did, every single night, but that’s a different story.) 3rd I have never been out of the country and I was scared out of my mind. Ok, so now that we have those on the table. We can continue so the first night we were in Mexico, another room of girl’s ac was broken and the guy could not come fix it till the morning. So… we had a sleep over in one room, 8 girls, 2 beds, 3 chairs and no sleep later. The work began, building houses and repairing others, painting walls and running bible studies this week was the best week of my life. The plane ride home was one that made me hate flying.
1 week in Mexico… $1,500
100 people lives were impacted… sweat and tears
Memories that will never be forgotten… priceless