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Personal Narrative: My Trip To The Dominican Republic

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One intercultural experience that changed my life was when I traveled to the Dominican Republic. I had the opportunity to go with a girl's youth group to the poor sugarcane villages in the outskirts of Santo Domingo. It was my first time out of the country, experiencing a different culture. During my trip, I encountered a lot of poverty. It affected me seeing large families living off handfuls of rice, children begging for clean drinking water, and communities living in huts. We also saw malnourished and homeless children running through the streets. But during my time there, I really got to interact with the people to see how much they help each other and how much they cherish every day. They treated all of us like family and we thoroughly

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