Trip Is Over

Well, Dave is about to land at Dulles as I type this and Ryan, Luca and I are entering our 5th hour of a layover in San Salvador before heading back to the states with most of the rest of the people on the trip. I think everyone had a great time and our lives were definitely "wrecked" by what we saw and we will be forever changed. Even for me, being my 5th time to Nicaragua, I leave each time just as overwhelmed and "messed with" as the year before, and I know Luca Ryan and Dave (as well as all the others on the trip from all 4 schools) will never forget this trip and will be impacted by what they saw. It's almost impossible to describe it or understand what we experienced without actually going through and seeing what we saw this week. Hopefully this blog showed some insight into what we did, but I know what we shared just scrathed the surface of what we experienced. It should be interesting to see how things go back in the US and how we can remember what we saw in Nicaragua and not fall back into the typical American lifestyle. Life in the US is the exception, and Nicaragua is the rule. What we will see when we return to the US will try its best to tell us that what we saw in Nicaragua doesn't exist and was completely imagined, but in reality, what we saw in Nicaragua permeates the world and what we have in the US is definitely the exception to life on this planet. Hopefully we can all figure out a way to take advantage of the resources we have to help those in need not only around the world but also in the US.

Step 1: Raise money for Angel and his family so they can have a house made of cement rather than one made of trash and plastic.

In the next week a lot of pictures will be put on facebook, but we will pick some of the best ones to put on here when we have the time, so don't tune out yet!

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