Personal Narrative: My Trip To Central America

I finally made it to America! The journey from Italy was definitely more challenging than I would have expected. When I first decided I would move here, I didn't expect the amount of storms that we hit. On the week journey, there was only a few days when it did not rain. We were so close together in the bottom of the ship that there was barely any room to breathe! I was barely allowed on the upper decks, which made the lower deck seem so much more crowded. I heard someone say that there was around 3,000 people on the ship alone, and most of them were in steerage class with me. I didn't get the opportunity to change my clothing, and we were only allowed to shower in salt water, if at all. The meals consisted of soups or stews throughout

The first stop on our trip was Bari, Italy. When we got off the boat we each rented a bicycle and a tour guide took us all around the city. The first thing we saw was a beautiful big cathedral. The architecture was fascinating and there were a bunch of interesting artifacts inside. The next stop was a big castle right on the coast. Inside there were multiple pieces of art and tons of information on the history of the city. Next we rode our bikes down to the beach and stopped at a small bakery that had the most delicious gelato I have ever had. By that time it was time to leave and back to the boat.

From the moment I set foot outside San Jose Airport, I knew this trip to Costa Rica would be an amazing experience. Mountains which surrounds the airport was breathtaking and signaled the great experienced that was in stored for us. Our tour guide Daniel was very helpful and explained in vivid detail about the surroundings. The environment resembled very much about my home country Sri Lanka, and it gave me an overwhelming feel of happiness, almost like I came back home. I was feeling a little sad because my roommate Shannon missed her flight, but on the way to the hotel, Dr. Rhodd announced that she would luckily be joining us the next day.

On a recent trip to Nicaragua I encountered events that were life changing. It was a totally new experience for me, from the people, the culture, and the environment. This time gave me a new appreciation for the environment in which I live, a variety of eye opening experiences, and led to life changing personal growth.

The past two semesters have been difficult for me. Around the end of October my mother travelled to her native country, El Salvador, to be there supporting my aunt through her eye surgery. It had been 20 years since my mother had visited her country and seen my older brother she left back in El Salvador. Three days into her trip my mother got really bad of health, she had fainted in shock and would not eat nor drink anything. Later on she was hospitalized in a hospital; the doctor stated that she could not come back by herself. I, as her daughter, was the designated person to go pick her up. Before leaving I indicated to my professors that I had a family emergency and that I would be traveling out of the country. So I traveled to El Salvador

When I was going to English school in Toronto, I had an opportunity to go to a Colombian restaurant because there was only one Colombian in my class, meaning that most of them were from Asia.

Our next stop was on our way back home. Which was an island right beside Mexico which makes it part of Mexico. My excursion here was with my step aunt vise and my cousin Cory. We rode horses on a dessert trail around this huge horse ranch. It was fun, cool, hot, and beautiful excursion. After that we went to eat somewhere on the island. Which is also were I first held an iguana and a red, blue macaw on my head.

The trip consisted of two flights on the way to Costa Rica and we had a short tour of San Jose on our way to the first hotel. The first hotel was hot and the rooms were tight. The second day we went on a walking tour of San Jose and stop at different landmarks and talked Costa Rican history. Later that afternoon we went to a coffee plant and learned more about the Britt coffee plant and history of when it started. That night we went out in San Jose and bought our own dinner, mine was nasty. After dinner, we went to get crepes. Day three, we left San Jose and we were on our way to La Fortuna. On the way there, we stopped in an ox cart museum and listened to to history of ox cart wheels. After the ox Cart museum, we went to the gift shop to

I'm a very open person because I don't feel the need to hide who I am , but people may not know about me is that i love to travel , I've been in 3 road trips around the United states and to three different countries I want to Colombia three times, Honduras once and Mexico two times. All of my trips have been different. I always learn something new about the culture. Honestly the idea of being able to go back to your roots is amazing, you get to see how different their daily routines are compared to ours. It actually makes you appreciate life and family more. Not everyone as fortunate as us Americans so it really is and I opening experience and for that I feel blessed for what I have today.

My love for mission trips gave me a perspective of how language is not barrier when people use body language to communicate. My two-week mission trip to Peru was an eye opener. I got connected with a girl named Dianna; we were the same age. I remember the last day of our trip, we rode the bus with the girls and dropped them off at school and I sat with Dianna. She started crying goodbye tears. I did not want to cry to show her that I was sad. I wanted to show her that that was not goodbye, but see you later. Next, I sang her, "You Are My Sunshine". I remember my father would sing me this song to calm me down when I was a little girl. I am almost positive that singing the song to her, calmed her down because she hugged , stopped crying and

During Thanksgiving break of my sixth grade year, I embarked on a journey with my family to Spain. Though I had been taking Spanish for three years, I had a very limited vocabulary, but since neither of my parents have ever learned Spanish, I was still one of the best speakers in my family. I was very excited, but also very nervous. It was my first time visiting Europe as well my first international plane ride. Our plane took off at around seven pm our time, and we arrived in Madrid when the sun was just starting to peek through the clouds. We checked into the hotel, dropped off our bags and hit the city.

I’ve have not had many exciting things happen in my life , but one thing that did happen was when my mom surprised me with a plane ticket to Mexico to go visit my Father. This was back in 2012 , i was only twelve-years old at the moment. But when i did arrive in mexico , i landed in mexico city and there i was supposed to take a taxi to his house. I tried to get a cab , but it was hard to get one because it was really packed in mexico. So i called my mom to tell my dad to come pick me up , and yes he arrived 15 min later. I stayed in mexico for about 2 weeks , before i left i brought back lots of mexican

We arrived at Cancun around 8:15 , it took us 15 mins to get through the scans and 30 mins to get to our resort. In Cancun the traffic is crazy it 's more wild then it is in america. As we arrived we saw the ocean from the window, I never seen an ocean before so it looked amazing to me. The way the water had so many mixing colors such as blue, dark blue , white and turquoise. It was amazing , I jumped up and told my dad “hey i 'm going to straight to the beach is that okay?” I asked my dad. He said it was fine and that I could go but I had to take my sister.

It all started in Mexico City. It was 8:00am .When my family was traveling from Mexico City to the U.S.A and my mom, sister, brother and me were leaving with sad tires because we were going to miss my grandma and great grandma.

The next morning we were sleeping in because we were so terribly tired, but our cousins woke us up. And we havn’t seen them in four years since that trip and there my best friends. We spent our first day swimming and getting used to each other, for the rest of the days we were signed up for beach camp with our cousins, that’s where you would surf and swim and tube and see new animals and learn spanish and meet new friends. And then after that we would swim more and fish and take pictures.