For Carter,
it has been a huge blast to be in New Mexico. Today we went to see the Rio
Grande River and we even skipped rocks. Mr. Coolidge’s goal was to skip the
rock all the way across the river. Finally, with his last stone, he
succeeded! His stone skipped across the
river at least six times.
While we
were at the river, we learned about irrigation.
There are lots of steps to turning the water on so that farmers can get
their fields irrigated. We got to
irrigate someone’s farmland. You see
some of that in the pictures. We also
saw many different canals. There were
catwalks across the canal from which we could take beautiful pictures.
One of our
favorite experiences here was making tortillas.
We got to squash little round balls of dough and make them into circles
with a rolling pin. We then cooked them and ate them. They were so good! With the honey it didn’t taste too good in the
beginning, but the aftertaste was delicious!
Yohannes
feels that the other night was the best day of trip because we went out to Santa
Fe, the capital of New Mexico and because it was Christian and Taylor’s
birthday. That night we went out for
pizza and ice cream. It felt pretty weird to be in a city area because we have
been in a place that was not high-tech for almost a week. I think that this
will be one my best trips ever!
Christian
writes: On this trip I have learned a
lot about respect and being polite. I have had so much fun on this service trip
but every good time must come to an end. One of the saddest times of this trip was
saying goodbye to the kids and our World Leadership teachers. I have made a lot of friendships but I have
got contact numbers. One of the funniest
times of this trip was when we were putting up our tent. Man! We put that tent
up and down so many times. Then we finally got a new tent that was very nice
and big, but then the ZIPPER BROKE!
Good bye New
Mexico!
to Southwest Airlines in 
