Dominican Republic Experience

You never realize how much you have until you see someone who has very little. I got to really see that when i got to go to the Dominican Republic. It was a great experience not just to see the historic places and the perfect blue ocean like the ones you see in pictures but also to help the people over there in need. The people there were really cool and i learned a lot from the from them and their culture. Even though we had lots of problems at the airports and when we arrived, we still had a lot of fun and it really made me realize how much i have.
It's day one and a group of us from church met at the church and we headed to the airport. Our plan was to go to Santo Domingo then get a ride from a group of people that work with a camp that …show more content…
We left during the fourth of july and as we flew to San Francisco we got to see fireworks in the sky and it lit up the clouds turning the into different colors and the night was lit up with color. When we got to the airport we had a two hour break to eat and i eat a burger with some fries in the cafeteria. After we got onto the plane to New York City and it was eight o'clock at night so our leader recommended some rest as we flew, which i soon realize was harder than i expected and i ended not sleeping at all because of the rough flight through the middle of the country. When the pilot said we made it to New York it was about five in the morning and we …show more content…
At the beach it smelt like salt water and you hear the ocean roar.
The ocean was super blues and warm and there were coconut trees just outside the beach. We stayed there half the day and was a cool experience because our group is from arizona and there is little water there. The other half of the day we were at the resort and we played pool in the loft while we enjoyed the amazing air conditioning. I was glad we had air conditioning back and i was not sweat for the first time of the week.
The last day we got our stuff and headed to the airports. Luckily we got a straight flight to arizona and we headed out right away. We went through security to get on the plane and i had braces at that time and every time i went under their metal detectors it would always beep and they searched me around five times even when i kept telling them it was my braces and then kind of let me go like they gave up which was weird but i accepted it because i wanted to go home. As we got closer to arizona there was a monsoon and the turbulence was insane. It felt like a rollercoaster going through drops and at one moment i swear we were free falling for like two seconds because it felt we were falling out of the sky and when you looked out the