This year again‚ I was preparing my trip to Chile. The holiday vacations were starting in a week‚ and like every other year I was leaving for Christmas. My desire for helping others in need‚ started when I was only 15 years old. That’s when I went on my first humanitarian trip‚ with my school. We left for Chile and built ten houses in two weeks. Since then‚ I have never skipped a year without going on this trip and building houses. The first couple of years I would leave in the summer vacations‚
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Overwhelmed. The only word I can think of when the flight attendant calmly says‚ “Welcome to Port-au-Prince‚ Haiti‚ you may now unfastened your seatbelts.” Tears fell from my eyes and all the emotions that I was feeling for the last 4 hours suddenly began pouring out. I had never been to Haiti and the only mindset of it I had was that there was killing and kidnapping. I was extremely anxious because of that. “NO!‚ YES!‚ NO!‚ YES!‚ NO!!”‚ my conflicted mind begins to yell. I couldn’t believe that
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Educational Trip to UP Diliman and PHILVOCS On February 20‚ 2014 we‚ the 4th year students of BS Civil Engineering students of Don Honorio Ventura Technological State University (DHVTSU) had an educational trip on Laboratory of Civil Engineering department of UP Diliman and PHILVOCS. The purpose of this trip is to gain useful and helpful informations about our course‚ to learn how to use and operate laboratory equipment used in the field of Civil Engineering. The first part of the trip was on UP
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So‚ my trip from Los Angeles to Sacramento was very different from my other trips. Sure I once when on a road trip to Portland by land‚ but it was actually different. Our family basically had 3 days to go anywhere we wanted to‚ and we brought only a few supplies. On road trips‚ my family just goes yolo on the spot. Whatever is there to eat we eat whatever there is and everything we do it like what is available. So it started after getting out of our hotel. We drove for the next 1 ½ hour just driving
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Before this trip‚ I had never climbed a mountain and this was more than just climbing a mountain. So I wasn’t really prepared mentally or physically to go on a trip that required carrying a 40 to 50 pound pack over steep‚ rocky trails at elevations ranging from 6‚500 to 12‚500 feet. Since I had a history of asthma when I was in middle school‚ I was a little nervous as I wasn’t sure if I will be able to complete this trip without being pulled out from the crew half way through the trip due to my asthma
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Vanessa My Trip to Paradise I stepped out of the flight gate at the Honolulu International Airport (HIA)‚ and into another world. The shortest 5 hour flight I have experience without any turbulence. The beautiful islands of Hawaii was an adventure of a lifetime. The air was so much different in the Pacific. It was crisp‚ almost like a baby taking his first breath of clean air. We were alive. We were so far from home‚ but felt like we belong there. As soon we
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RSCH – 6100Y Post Assessment-Fishing Trip Walden University Dr. King May 25‚ 2012 Post-asset Abstract The wheels are turning‚ but nobody is home. Procrastination has set in and we are in the middle of a fishing trip. A fisherman needs the right bait‚ equipment‚ and location to catch that perfect fish. One may be sitting in the boat holding a fishing pole (short cuts do not solve problems)‚ but epistemology is everything. Different parts of this equation are what bring together an awesome
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Andrea Harris Dr. Zhang CosI 118 9/17/13 Can You Find Me Now? How is a Nintendo Wii game console able to determine the location of a Wii Remote while a player interacts with a game? The answer is triangulation‚ a process that determines the location of an object by measuring the angles from two or more fixed points. Surveyors often use triangulation to measure distance. Starting at a known location and elevation‚ surveyors measure a length to create a base line (Jains 30-48). The length
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The unit was dispatched to an office building for a patient in respiratory distress. The patient was found sitting on the front steps in a slouching position. Upon arrival‚ I took his blood pressure. Despite the call being dispatched as respiratory distress‚ the patient did not seem short of breath. In fact‚ he was alert and talking nearly the whole time he was with us. The stretcher was brought out and he was able to climb onto it with some assistance. Once in the ambulance‚ my partner
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My first holiday Abroad The date was set‚ I was nervious but also exicted tp the whole idea of another country. It happned out of the blue‚ I remeber the night vividly.I was in my room playing xbox‚ other than the roaring sound of cars blowing up and crashing on my T.V. The surroundings were quiet. Just then the phone went-it was my auntie."Hello" said I in a wondering state of mind as i was never usually called by her much. "Hiya" her voice was loud and happy "do you want to come to Ibiza with
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