Personal Narrative: My Trip To The Dominican Republic

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Travel offers many benefits, including relaxation, time off from work and school, and the opportunity to see and try new things. As a family, we travel for all of these reasons, but most of all in hopes of learning from the local culture. We’ve taken many trips within the United States. But the ones to foreign countries have had the biggest impact on me.
The first place we visited was the Dominican Republic. The poverty that surrounded us there surprised me. I learned that only 30 percent of the country’s children finish primary school, which means that very few kids there have a chance to get a proper education. That deficiency in turn imposes economic barriers that are hard to overcome. Before our trip, I used to grumble about early mornings, how much schoolwork I was loaded …show more content…
We visited restaurants, grocery stores, and churches, and we spoke with the locals. This country also struggles with poverty, as evidenced by the homes people live in and their lack of creature comforts. I thought that the Costa Ricans we met might resent us for being able to vacation while they couldn’t afford such luxuries. But they spoke to us openly and were welcoming and kind. They showed me that no matter what my circumstances, I should find the happiness in them.
My family and I enjoyed amazing food in one of the last places we have visited, Puerto Rico; but many people there often do without. In the evening, many homeless people were on the streets. On the first night that we were returning to our hotel, we saw a man with his dog sitting next to Wendy’s. People carrying food they had just bought kept walking out of the restaurant without giving him a second glance. But we filled a bag for him. When we gave it to him, he looked at us in surprise, asking, “Is this all for me?”
Each night we did the same thing for a different person. It was a small gesture that made a
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