participate in the Field Biology Capstone on the Galapagos Islands because of the unique wildlife‚ history‚ and opportunities that make a trip to the Galapagos unparalleled. This experience will enable me to grow in a number of ways and learn many skills and lessons that simply can’t be taught here in Iowa. For starters‚ I have wanted to go to the Galapagos since I first learned about Charles Darwin’s voyage in my 10th grade biology class‚ and I believe that there is absolutely no better way to experience
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Intrepid back from the previous accident‚ I begun my road trip to Yellowstone National Park in early morning. As I drove down the road‚ I soon realized that I had never been anywhere alone before. This was a new feeling for me‚ one of strength and fear rolled into one. My trip was nerve wrecking because I faced a certain problems with my car that I have never experienced before‚ but it taught me a lot about how to maintain my car. The first problem I got was after hundreds miles driving from Chicago
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Pumpkin Patch I recently took a trip to a pumpkin patch in my hometown. It is located off the main highway in a secluded field surrounded by enormous Douglas Firs and various scattered Maple trees. The pumpkin patch is owned by a gentle‚ older couple whom you will often find wandering around the patch helping when needed. My trip not only provided me with a pumpkin‚ it also reminded me of the simple beauties of life. Hundreds of feet of tangling green vines were on the ground with pumpkins of
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21st January 2010 Art Trip To The National Gallery This year’s Art trip was really not that inspirational to me‚ as it was rushed and we only had about 2 hours and 15 minutes in the National Gallery‚ which was not enough time to explore the gallery or to find our favourite piece of Art. However‚ with the help of Emily Miller‚ with whom I toured the galleries‚ I managed to find the one Artwork that I really love and admire. The moment we walked in the National Gallery‚ she started looking for
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night begins and people start walking in ready to eat. The food isn’t quite ready to eat so we all sit on the couch watching tv or sitting up at the table talking. Tired of waiting around bored a few of us start a game of euchre‚ just the first of many for this trip. We all sit around the table laughing and giving each other a hard time about not making the right play or not winning in general. The mood changes from intense to laughing. it doesn’t stay the same for very long. Finally after the
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Tamil Nadu Trip October 2011 This trip was planned two months before‚ as it involved many train journeys. Our tickets booked through 62 express always materializes & this one did too. This trip started with Vadodara on 22nd Sat with Appa & Amma. On 23rd‚ we boarded Karnavati Express to Mumbai at 06-45 am. Train comes from Ahmedabad & stops for 5 minutes at Vadodara. The coolie at Vadodara refused to budge below Rs.150; but we coolly got inside the train. Luckily‚ ours were the last seats which
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Everyone wants to take a trip to an exotic place like; Australia‚ Brazil‚ or maybe even the Dominican Republic. Its just something that is on people’s minds because they want to travel somewhere besides what they have already seen. I took that exotic trip to the Dominican Republic and it was definitely life changing. It was a different experience compared to what I had seen in the United States. Everything there was so beautiful but it was also hard to see all the poverty in some parts of the Dominican
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I was on my way to church with a few of my best friends‚ a typical Wednesday for me‚ at least‚ that’s what I thought. As I was laughing at a joke someone had made‚ my youth minister called. He asked if I would like to go on a mission trip to New Orleans this summer. Just like any other teenager‚ I jumped at the chance to go somewhere new‚ especially New Orleans. Therefore‚ I told my youth minister that I would love to go and to let me know the dates so I could take a week or so off work. I was so
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A Trip to Mexico (rough draft) It was December 2010 and my family and I were planning to go on a trip to Mexico in December for Christmas break because me and my siblings were out of school. We were packed our clothes and ready to leave. We were waiting for my uncle to come to our house so we could go and get ready to leave. We left Houston around 8pm‚ and my uncle drove the Nissan Frontier truck and we went straight to 59 south towards Victoria. When we got Laredo around 12 am‚ we took a break
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was in the eighth grade I went on a weeklong mission trip with my youth group to Houston‚ Texas. This trip was a turning point in my life spiritually and mentally‚ completely changing my thought process of inner city missions at the time. There is a ministry there called CSM that invites youth groups to come and they will take the group to certain places in the city where they can serve and get a feel for the need there and many places. This trip was very impacting for me and I am still looking back
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