The Smartest Trip To Peru

Smartest Choice I vividly recall asking my mother why she made me go on a trip with the school to Peru, instead of going back to China. She replied to me with only one Chinese word: “Li Lian”, meaning “getting life experience and developments”. At the very end of the sophomore year, when I heard my mom wanted me to go to Peru, I was so unwilling to go, for I thought my summer was going to be hanging out with friends in China! I said to her: “Are you kidding? Peru? The Amazon River? The JUNGLE??? Did you ever think about how dangerous it would be?” However, now I am so glad that I went on that trip, because it gave me so many surprises and precious memories. Going on that trip is one of the smartest decisions I have ever made. Making this decision is hard, very hard, I wanted to see my friends back in home instead of going to that “stupid” trip with some random seniors. I was deadly wrong for this, everyone on that trip, including the students from another US high school, became my closest friends. I was still doubt whether I could make friends with these “strangers” on the pre-travel meeting, in fact, their mature and sociable character pull me inside their society on the very first day we arrived in Peru. We gathered together and played a little bit of card games, talked about our own life, told some jokes, and all of sudden, I could remember everyone’s name! They are no more unfamiliar to me, with my very outgoing character, we felt like we have known each other for a long time. In getting along with them nicely, I

Going to this trip is one of my smartest choice of my life, which changed my life, it was so unforgettable, just like the night sky we saw with thousands of twisted, shining, dreamlike stars on the Amazon