The Adventure Begins

This is a picture I took of Port-A-Prince from the window of the plane.
All the blue dots are tents from tent cities.

This summer, I got the amazing chance to go with 16 other people from my church youth group on a mission trip to Haiti. We went to help out an organization in Haiti called Northwestern Haiti Christian Mission.  The trip was challenging in every way possible, but an amazing experience, none the less.  Getting ready for the trip definitely wasn't easy, either.  Thankfully, I already had my passport taken care of, but I had to get shots (I think it was about six shots....typhoid & flu hurt the most),as well as malaria pills, and I had to do lots of fundraisers and odd jobs to raise all the money; because I definitely didn't get to Haiti on pocket change!  Then, after all our hard work, my group boarded a plane to begin our adventure.  We first flew to Miami and spent the night there.  Then, the next morning we got up early and began our traveling once more, this time we would be leaving the country. We weren't really sure what to expect, all we knew was that we weren't going to be coming back the same.  Change in some way or another is hard to avoid on a trip like this.