Best Experience of My Summer

When I was looking for things to do over the summer I knew I wanted to something that would help people so I started looking at service trips. I had taken two years of spanish so I was interested in going to a spanish speaking country. The Costa Rica, Go Beyond Trip sounded perfect. In the time leading up to the trip the Go Beyond staff was extremely helpful and answered all of our questions. My parents had a lot of concerns but Go Beyond provided information for a few families who had kids who went on the trip previous years and they gave glowing recommendations. I arrived in Costa Rica and met the friendly staff. The next fourteen days were a blast. We painted houses, worked with the costa rican children in schools, learned how to wax floors, spent two nights with an indigenous tribe, and rafted! The community service we did was hard work but passed by so fast because it was so fun. All of our meals were excellent and the places we stayed beautiful. I made friends that will last a lifetime and can’t wait to hopefully go on another trip soon!