Official Start Time: 10:30 p.m.
Date: 7/2/09
Official End Time: 11:00 p.m.
Today, at least according to the time we officially land, marks the 1 year anniversary of my trip to China. It’s seems just like yesterday that I took that 16 hour plane ride that literally transformed my life. Since that day, my life was exposed to new frontiers, new ideas, and new experiences that I hope to keep for years to come.
The idea was first presented to me in December of 2008. I was asked by a program director at Education Connection, Steve Wilmarth, if I would be interested in taking part of a 2 week cultural exchange program. The idea at first was knew to me, seeing as I had never left my own state, yet alone the country. It wasn’t traveling that scared me, but paying for it as my internship with Education Connection was probably the only first real job I ever really had.
It didn’t take long for time to fly by and before I knew it, 1200 dollars later, I was sitting on a 16 hour plane ride to a country I had physical knowledge of.
The journey was exciting all within itself as good friends and new friends combined as we journeyed through each province and the mountains that laid ahead. The trip itself gave me a big wake up call as silly mistakes and reckless behavior nearly sacrificed all my hard work and the work of others who I will never be able to repay the altruism and patients they showed me in my time of need.
Now, 2 years later, the experience still runs proud and has consumed more of my life than I’d probably like to admit. Since that trip, I have participated in personal and facilitated endeavors that have taught me a little more of the future that lays ahead and my place within it. If there is anything my trip to China taught me is that to never give up, for determination and will to perceiver will always conquer all.
Sincerely, Hector Guzman
Date: 7/2/09
Official End Time: 11:00 p.m.
Today, at least according to the time we officially land, marks the 1 year anniversary of my trip to China. It’s seems just like yesterday that I took that 16 hour plane ride that literally transformed my life. Since that day, my life was exposed to new frontiers, new ideas, and new experiences that I hope to keep for years to come.
The idea was first presented to me in December of 2008. I was asked by a program director at Education Connection, Steve Wilmarth, if I would be interested in taking part of a 2 week cultural exchange program. The idea at first was knew to me, seeing as I had never left my own state, yet alone the country. It wasn’t traveling that scared me, but paying for it as my internship with Education Connection was probably the only first real job I ever really had.
It didn’t take long for time to fly by and before I knew it, 1200 dollars later, I was sitting on a 16 hour plane ride to a country I had physical knowledge of.
The journey was exciting all within itself as good friends and new friends combined as we journeyed through each province and the mountains that laid ahead. The trip itself gave me a big wake up call as silly mistakes and reckless behavior nearly sacrificed all my hard work and the work of others who I will never be able to repay the altruism and patients they showed me in my time of need.
Now, 2 years later, the experience still runs proud and has consumed more of my life than I’d probably like to admit. Since that trip, I have participated in personal and facilitated endeavors that have taught me a little more of the future that lays ahead and my place within it. If there is anything my trip to China taught me is that to never give up, for determination and will to perceiver will always conquer all.
Sincerely, Hector Guzman
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