Personal Narrative: My Trip To Guatemala

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Red brick roads, tin homes, crumbled buildings; all of which we saw on our trip.
In the United States, we do not seem to understand how different things are around the world. As we travel through Guatemala, we are clearly able to see the differences between how they live and how we live. Until we went to Guatemala, we complained about having to go to school and how awful we think school is. When we were there, we realized how lucky we are to live in the world that we live in and have all the things we claim we can not live without. As I board the plane for my first flight ever, I have no clue what would be in store when the wheels finally hit down on the hard concrete of a foreign land. My Spanish class and I are traveling to Guatemala to
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