Spring Break!

Hey y’all!

This past week, I traveled down to Mobile, Alabama for a Spring Break Immersion Trip with a group of nine other incredible people, and it was an amazing experience! We connected with the l’Arch community. Their Statement of Identity and Mission:

“We are people, with and without developmental disabilities, sharing life in communities belonging to an International Federation. Mutual relationships and trust in God are at the heart of our journey together. We celebrate the unique value of every person and recognize our need of one another.”

In the morning, we would help out with what needed to be done, such as painting kitchen cabinets, yard work, and cleaning until lunch. After lunch, we would have a break to do whatever we wanted to do as a group until dinner. Almost every night we were there, we ate dinner with the l’Arch community in our respective houses (there were four houses and there were ten of us on the trip). After dinner and evening activities, we would go back to where we were staying, and reflected about our day. I loved reflection time, because it was interesting to hear what others had to say about the day, and it was really fun hearing about each other’s day because we were split into groups for a majority of the day. Also, there was another school that was also doing the same Spring Break Immersion Trip as us, and it was interesting to connect with them to say the least.

I had a really fun time connecting with the other Holy Cross students who went on the trip, and I’m glad we’re all really close friends now. I can say this on behalf of the others that we had a lot of fun bonding and immersing ourselves into the l’Arch community.

And of course, we went to the beach. It was warm! Unlike here…but it’s still winter here, so no surprise there…

It was really sad to leave our new friends from the l’Arch community in Mobile.

However, we have many great memories that will forever be with us.

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