Mexican Sushi, Rose Petal Ice Cream and Community Impact

Submitted by LauraLynn on Wed, 08/27/2008 - 19:45

Hola friends! I’m currently in La Paz, Mexico preparing to leave for Cabo San Lucas tomorrow morning!!! I will take some time time to wrap up Breckenridge and the first week in Mexico!

My host family in Breckenridge was amazing! Benedicte was born in France, lived in the Netherlands and went to University in Africa. Talk about a woman with life experience. Our neighbors were conveniently from Nebraska so I felt as though a had a little bit of home with me that week. Our Community Impact projects for the week were spent in the Summit County schools repainting and making sure the schools were beautiful for the first day of class. The profits from the show in Breckenridge were given to the Summit County Community College. Excitement was running high in “Cast B” as Breckenridge was our last stop before heading to Mexico!

We pulled an all-nighter the day after the show so we could leave for the airport at 3:30 AM. We finally arrived and passed through customs in Mexico at 5:00 PM. The weather in La Paz is hot, hot, HOT. It is beautiful though. I am rooming with my "language buddy" Eriko from Japan. I’m helping her with her English and learning some Japanese along the way. It is awesome because we are also the City Runners for our next city. City Runners are students who run the morning meetings and wrap ups. Our host family is incredible. We have Beatriz and Guille as parents and Guillermo (12), Ana Beatriz (9) and Diego (7) as host siblings. I have had so much fun because even though there are some language boundaries I feel like I’m very much a part of the family. I know it will be very difficult to leave them on Monday. On our first night with them they took us to have Mexican Sushi. I had no idea what I was ordering, but it ended up being very good. Then on our first host family day we spent at the beach. We took a 30-minute boat ride to the beach and then met about 6 other Up With People families. The beaches are beautiful! The sand is white and the water is so blue and clear you can see straight to the bottom.

My first Community Impact day was spent working at a home for the elderly. What an incredible experience. We were supposed to paint, but the supplies never arrived so we ended up just spending time with the elderly. I met a woman who I couldn’t actually speak with because of the language barrier, but we ended up just singing to each other. She would sing me a Mariachi song and I sang her some songs from church. It was so incredible to see how music truly is a universal language. I guess I ended up on the primetime news in La Paz for singing to the elderly. I didn’t really realize they were there filming the whole interaction until Martin our cast manager told me he saw me on the news. So far that has been the most moving experience on the whole tour.

My second Community Impact day was spent with our benefactors for this show at “Mobilize Mankind.” We unloaded and built wheelchairs for a disability clinic. They provide wheelchairs and assistance to those that need it in Mexico, and at no cost. It’s an awesome program! It was great to see the impact that they have in making this area of Mexico more accessible to the disabled. I even raced Stewart in power chairs. Stewart is a fellow cast member who has Cerebral Palsy and uses a power chair. It was really fun buzzing around with him and seeing what life is like from his point of view.

I had a fun experience while walking down one of the famous streets in La Paz. I had been told Mexico had great ice cream and that I should definitely try the La Petal de Rosa flavor. I took it upon myself to try something new and found that I really enjoyed it. It's actually rose petal flavored ice cream. It tastes exactly the way roses smell if you can imagine that. I can’t wait to have more fun experiences as we move on to Cabo San Lucas tomorrow!

More Mexico to come! Get excited...

Watch this video to see Cast B in action in Mexico!

Up with People seeks to train youth in global leadership and to spark them to action in meeting the needs of their communities, countries and the world.

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