My name is Israel Lopez and I am from Camden, N.J. My school, MetEast high School, will be taking 15 students to Guatemala to take a spanish course and I am one of those 15 students. I have never left the United States so this is going to be a new experience for me. I only get on planes to go to Puerto Rico but the flight is about 3 hours long. Going to Guatemala is going to be a long flight. We leave Philadelphia in the morning and then go to South Carolina after that we take our flight to Antigua, Guatemala. I am a bit scared of planes and this is the second time that I will riding without one of my relatives on board. I am very happy to know that I will be leaving the country with my school to learn more Spanish. My spanish might be more fluently then others because I speak spanish on a daily basis, it may not be good but it is good enough. Some of my hobbies will consist of the following:
o Going out
o Spending time with my family
o Talking on the phone
o Passionate about technology and law
I am looking forward to a lot of things in this trip. I will like to visit historical sites and locations. Also, I want to learn more about Guatemala and how it is different from the United States. I want to compare and contrast the alike and unalike things from Guatemala and the United States. I am wondering about a lot of things. I wonder how the temperature in Guatemala is going to be. I wonder how the host families are going to treat us. I am also wondering how the people in the streets are going to look at us. It is a privilege to go on this school trip so I am going to take that advantage and Spanish in a different country. Some of my concerns will be being stopped by the immigration people. Will they stop us because we may act and look differently? How is the police over there? What does the police have over there that we don’t have here? Who makes all of the decisions for the people in Guatemala? President? Prime minister?
To be continued....
