Session 1

These last 26 days have been a truly interesting experience. There are amazing aspects to this trip and absolutely awful aspects to it. To start with the amazing components, the students I have met on this trip and the activites we have done were great. My host mom has been amazing, and I have learned to problem solve and deal with stress. My program leader Cynthia also made the trip very fun. I hope to maintain contact with her after the trip. On the other hand, the classes and ITCs are pointless and majority of the program leaders make no difference in the program whatsoever. I was told that I would be rooming with another student, but I ended up living alone. This does not matter as much now, but when I first came here, a buddy would have REALLY helped me out. I felt stressed and scared all of the time before I became familiar with my surroundings. The experience credit scam is also not apreciated.