Alex Mohr's Reflections

Reflecting back on this trip, it’s been one of the most amazing experiences that I’ve ever been through. When I first heard about the trip I thought you know this would be cool but I didn’t think that it would be the way that it turned out to be. We met at 3 AM at DIA and I didn’t really know anyone that wasn’t in my grade so I was you know a little more socially awkward than I normally a.m. it was kind of like going to DA on the first day of school all over again. I started talking to people while we were waiting for our flight and then even more on the layover I started doing peoples names and put names to faces it was kind of nice. After the 15 hour plane ride to Singapore I felt like I need to learn all about Mathew Ford and I knew his entire life story. When we first got off the humidity hit me like a wall it was so humid and I didn’t understand why and it frankly scared me a little bit I didn’t know places could be as humid as it was but I started to adjust to it and then I looked out into the bay while we were on the bus. It was so beautiful there were lights and there was water and there were just amazing pieces of architecture all around and I started to appreciate where I was a lot more rather than complaining about it in the back of my head. Singapore came and went it was really fun and then we went on to Bhutan when we were in Bhutan I learned even more about the people around me and I got to make friendships that I hope will last even longer than I ever thought they would. Now that the trip is starting to come to an end I am sad to see it go because of all the amazing stuff that we did and all of the new friendships that I’ve made but I think that all of us will be happy to be home to have our own beds and have our families back even if in a week from now we may be back to it’s not a phase mom.

I appreciate the teachers for bringing me on this trip I never expected that it would end up the way it did and it’s so so amazing to be there, I also appreciate the upperclassman who took me in and showed me the ropes and were friends with me I’ve never really had friends who are much older than me so that was really nice hearing their crazy high school stories and experiences and all of that it was just really nice. I’d also like to appreciate the people that I already knew during the before the trip I feel that our friendship got even stronger than it already was and even even if it wasn’t that strong before it’s definitely stronger now.