The Toll of Traveling

When I travel, I get very excited. I usually tell all my friends and plan what all I want to do weeks before the actual trip. Unfortunately I haven't gone on many big trips or long trips during my life, except for when I went to Jamaica for a mission trip. We, meaning me, my cousin, and my mom went with my dentist down to Jamaica last January. We stayed at a bible camp there up in the mountains and had a spectacular view. We got to spend our afternoons enjoying the scenery and hanging out. During the mornings we got to go out and teach little kids in schools how to brush their teeth and put Fluoride on them. The hardest part about going to Jamaica is not the traveling and the flights, because those are short, but having to get the shots before the trip so we would be safe and healthy during the trip. We also had to drink special water that was purified and clean. This is because the water down in Jamaica does not have Iodine and other chemicals in it to clean it like we have in America, so we don't get sick we drank out of a faucet in the kitchen. Jamaica was a great time and a life changing experience. I learned a lot about kids and how to help God. It was life changing seeing the different economy and what life was like in impoverishment areas in Jamaica. It was really hard seeing the different people walking around spending their days making little money and trying to survive daily. The dentist went and would work on peoples teeth, pulling them if they were rotten and giving out pain killers. If i didn't go to the school, I would go and help organize the people, watch him work, or clean the utensils since there is a special way that has to be done. All in all, I loved doing ministry work in Jamaica and would go back in a heartbeat.