Mission Trips and Dancing On Sunday evening, I was supposed to fly to Lexington, Kentucky. However, the flight oversold, and we had no back up plan for how I was going to get to Mission Trip. Then my mom quickly searched flights, and we decided we would fly to Atlanta, and drive overnight in order to get me there in time. So we ran from the American terminal across the airport to the Delta terminal, scheduled a rental car, and prayed everything would work out. Luckily, it did. We got first class to Atlanta, and hopped in a cute little Ford C-Max, and drove 7 hours to Chavies, Kentucky. We arrived at 7 A.M. in Chavies, Kentucky. But as we neared our final destination, we got lost. We drove to a near by gas station and asked or help, but they didn’t know where we were talking about. Finally, we got a hold of my youth …show more content…
We got up early, had breakfast, packed up all of our things, and cleaned the whole center. Then we headed out to the site for the last time to say goodbye to our homeowner and give them a bible, in which we all marked our favorite verses. After this, we headed back to the center, loaded up our bags on the buses, and headed back for Flower Mound. 18 hours later, we arrived in Flower Mound at 7 A.M. Friday morning, and that marked the end of my mission trip. This experience is truly one that I cherish so much, and this week is one of my fondest memories every year. Not only because I learn construction skills and get to share the gospel, but because I learn lessons that apply to my everyday life, including my dancing. One of these lessons is work-ethic. Throughout the week, I have to push through each task, not moving on until I finish. This principle applies to my dancing, because day in and day out, I have to continue to push my technique in order to advance. This work-ethic is very important because it shows my teachers and choreographers that I am willing to work for what I want, or what they
Life can have many ups and downs. One positive thing that has happened to me is being able to go on Mission Trips with my local youth group. I have been on a total of four mission trips in my life. Each one I go on opens my eyes to God. It brings people together and allows everyone to go and help the communities out. The mission trips are filled with teenagers from all over Missouri, that go all over America to help out. All the mission trips are put together by the CCYM (Conference Council on Youth Ministries.)
My youth pastor pulled out of our church parking lot at three am in the morning loaded down with a bus full of twenty four teenagers including me. We were off at last head to Colorado Spring Colorado, little did I know, our bus was going to fall apart this very day.
After the two groups went back and fourth for a couple of hours it was finally time to say goodbye. The dallas council did the famous grito en honor of Mexico's idependence hitting the bell 3 times to announce our independence. It was an amazing experience to be able to be part of such
As the day started to dwindle down, we got annoyed with all the little kids running around and trying to outrun each other and parents yelling at them, we thought we would call it a day. Before we would go back to the hotel we decided to expand our looking of the city and take in all the sights and smells of Tennessee. We thought we would go above and beyond of what we did a couple days ago and we got to see much more and also some very charming houses. My father asked my sister and I some questions on the way
we got there put on my boots and got the soccer ball out. We kept on playing for hours
It happened around the time families are home sitting around the table together, laughing together, making memories together in the warmth and comfort of their own home. This is something my family would be doing at home too, but on this evening we decided to go out to eat, so Sizzlers it was! As we sat there stuffing our faces I was thinking about how much food we consume, how much food we waste, just how much of everything we had. It was in that moment when I got the memory of a mission trip I went on a couple years ago...
Once I woke up I called Alavee to make sure he was awake. I'm glad he was because he saved me some time by calling Priya and Rigo to make sure they were getting ready to go. About an hour and a half later we all met up in the school parking lot at about the same time. The exception was Priya who had to take extra time to bring the camper which we hardly used in the end, but it was still better than trying to cram into one car to sleep. Anthony brought his new jeep so we thought it would be a good idea to hook the pop-up camper to the jeep and take the jeep on our journey. Now that we were ready and had double-checked everything, we were ready to begin our journey. First, we were well stocked with food and gas we were underway for our trip. We headed toward the interstate, and turned left on I-90 west.
For example, dressing appropriately in public knowing that certain things we wear attract sexual attention. This shows that the lesson of sexual attention being dangerous can be applied to our lives. Sexual attention is dangerous, especially for teens and little kids, and it is this lesson that will save them from being sexually assaulted. In addition, to keep studying in college/school even if you feel like you do not belong. This shows how the lesson of to keep keeping could be applied to our lives. There has been studies that college freshmen drop out of college because they feel like they do not belong there, but with this lesson and a little perseverance the college freshmen would be on their way to reach their goals. Also, for example, to not take first impressions for granted or to not judge a book by its cover. This shows how to apply the lesson of not everything you see is what you expect. Whenever someone new is introduced into your life, you always make a first impression of them, no doubt about it. Whether it be a good impression or bad impression, there is always something stopping you from talking to them or getting to know them because of one silly assumption we made, but who's to say that assumption is correct? With this lesson we would still make our silly assumptions about this person, but knowing this
I did not want to leave. I had been here for ten days and I had established relationships and friendships with people from everywhere and all sorts of backgrounds. We all sat in the car preparing to leave. Every single one of us, my parents, brother and me, sitting in silence. Wanting to cry, waiting for someone to say the first word. Each of us had learned something that trip. For me, this experience had taught me what gratefulness was, the impact a good attitude has, what a servant looks like, and really how the relationships we make with our life is the most important aspect about life.
How much could a tiny tot possibly have to share with the world in one dance class? Let me tell you, in my first dance class I thought I had become the most beautiful thing in the world. In my head, I floated above the ground with every movement I made, like a water lily; I became the most spectacular princess in the land with every leap, and the most elegant fairy as I sat down with my legs crossed and my hands in my lap. However, in reality I was running around with a blue, almost see-through scarf in my hand like a baby elephant learning to walk, and in horrible princess manners, giving my classmates, that were not taking the class as seriously as I thought they should, dirty looks. Dance class was a place where if I closed my eyes tight enough, I could block out reality, become whatever I wanted and tell any story I wanted to.
I had my first dance recital on the day I turned four. Now I don’t remember anything from that day, but I believe that that day is when I learned I loved to perform. I’ve been taking dance lessons since then, and many things that I do now involve performing in some type of way.
I guess I should start at the very beginning which would be getting up at 6:45 in order to make lunches for the students going on the trip. I had agreed to help Brenda make sandwiches, but neither of us got the key for the dining hall so we had to break into the dining hall with a clothes hanger, we are now professional picks locks because we finally got it open on the 30th try. At any rate we had fun making bagged lunches and pick on each other in the process. Then all the mission students piled into the vehicles to ride to New Tribes Mission, I always thoroughly enjoy the rides on these trips because we frequently have some lively discussions and this trip was no exception. Upon arriving at New Tribes the only thing on the outside property
We then turned off the driveway, making sure to roll down our windows, so we can breathe the fresh mountain air, at least until the next time we come back, and once again start the bumpy road home.
We were going to leave around 12:00 p.m and get there around 10:00 p.m. After all the days of waiting we were locking up the house and getting into the car. I had a bag of stuff to do to keep me busy in the car. We got on the road around 1:00 p.m. and started our 10 hour journey. We were into the drive about two hours and the dog was sleeping and was surprisingly was a great traveler. I knew i still had a long drive left so I tried not to think of that but to think about what a good time I would have. It was 5:00 p.m and we were all getting hungry and decided to go to Taco Bell to get some food to keep us filled up for the rest of the way. We hit the road again for around five or six more hours. Around 8:00 p.m I woke up from a nap I had and I realized that there was only two more hours
Early Saturday morning, we drive half way to meet my coach out in Ashland. We meet up at a gas station were we had got food and drinks to hold us over until we got to Penn