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Mexico: Simplicity and Gratefulness |
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Tuesday, 20 May 2008 |
Laura is a Senior at Nerinx Hall High School and a member of St. Raphael the Archangel Parish. She participated in the March 2008 Uxpanapa, Mexico Immersion Trip with Nerinx Hall, St. John Vianney, and St. Mary’s students.
 After nearly two months of being back in America, it gets harder to continue living my virtues I learned from Mexico: simplicity and gratefulness. With so much going on right now, I feel like I am just pushing this experience to the side as I rush through my day completing tasks. Here, I feel like everyone has small goals to reach by the end of the day. Once one is reached, another one is already in line. Besides that, I am constantly reminded via email and photos of my friends I made. It's the little details I see here that cause me to think back to the trip: the single mother and her children, fences on a farm, bottled water, and school.
I know that in reality I will probably not see these people again, but I have a constant, never-ending hope that one day I might prove that statement wrong.
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