March 26, 2008
Yesterday was one of the funnest days I ever had in my life. The experience I had with the elementary students from Volcancito Elementary really opened my eyes to see how much our home is such a dream for them. From the moment we walked into the school all eyes were on us with the most innocent and curious eyes. At first I don’t think any of us had any idea of how eye opening this experience would be. The students in Venezuela are so welcoming to all and accepting. I was afraid to not know how to say things or how to speak to the kids because they were all young but
in fact I had nothing to worry about. They immediately walked up to all of us and just wanted to be around us and just try to take in any of the facts that we could give them from the united states. They really believe in a lot of the things that they see on television. When the fact that I’m mexican came up they immediately wanted to know how was it like there and many other things. In the time of their recess all the little kids came up to us asking us for our autographs and our phone numbers like if we were movie stars. At that moment i felt overwhelmed by all the kids around me but also i realized that we are more to them than just some white tourists but we were their link to the united states. At such a young age, from first grade to sixth, they were all trying to know what we thought of their president and what was it like to live in all those kind of places. i never in my life had ever been amazed by such a young group of people who know so much. Also my most favorite anecdote was when we were about to leave this one little girl whose class i got to be in, just walked up to me and gave me one of her color pencils that was super big. When she gave it to me she told me to remember venezuela. This memory will stay with me forever and I’m hoping that the rest of the trip will be as great as it has been so far.
- Lupe
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