The first day, Sunday, we arrived in San Juan and settled into our Holiday Day Inn Express rooms. We walked around the area for most of the time along with going to the beach. The second day we headed over to the Red Cross and cleaned the outside and inside of Red Cross vehicles. The third day we went to a boarding home called La Fondita de Jesus where we served food and some of us also went to a nearby place where we sorted out donated clothing to give out to the poor. On the fourth day, we went to the Veteran’s Hospital to help give out gifts from the Red Cross to patients there and also to talk with the patients. We communicated with some of them in English but even though many of them only knew Spanish we managed to somewhat communicate through the ‘Holas’ and other small Spanish words we learned. Then on the fifth day we headed over to the Escuela Lino Padron Rivera de Vega Baja High School where we had the chance to interact with students there and to help out by painting the music room. The students there were very interested in hearing what we had to say and most of them were willing to speak English. Then, the last day, Friday, we left very early in the morning to the airport. The trip gave us the great experience to have had been able to help out in a community in a culturally different atmosphere.
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