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My Trip To Galapagos Island Essay

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I planned for my trip to the Galapagos Islands for about a year and a half. It was my chance for a trip outside of the United States and a chance for me to solidify what I wanted for my future. It was a ten day trip with four days in the capital of Ecuador, Quito, and six days on the islands. I went with a group of kids from my high school, another high school in Massachusetts, and a group from Georgia. There were no parents on the trip, only a couple of chaperones from the schools, and very little access to the internet or the outside world. I was so excited to experience the anomaly that Charles Darwin had discovered on these islands. I would be forced to interact with people I had never met before for twenty four hours a day who may or may not have the same interests as me. I was not friends with anyone on this trip and talking to new people had always terrified me if someone I knew did not involve me in a conversation. I would be rooming with people who knew nothing about me and yet they became people that I now cherish memories with. The islands were exactly how textbooks describe. You could walk across one and see a rainforest, a desert, and a small rural town. There was Isabela Island first, with it’s five peaks and it’s coastal town, where …show more content…

I witnessed how stray dogs were used as guard dogs for the shops and given water and food in return. I wanted to create a place in the United States that was similar to this. It didn’t matter what breed or how old the dog was, each was given respect and taken care of. This helped me to cement my feelings on where I wanted to go with my college education. I had known at the time that I wanted to be an Animal Science Major and I had already chosen to go to the University of Massachusetts at Amherst with this in mind, but sure what exactly I wanted to focus

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