For those of you who love me and have read my blogs before, welcome back to a new trip! Those of you that have never read one and this is your first, welcome! I hope you enjoy!
Today was the first day of my trip to Arizona. Why am I in Arizona you ask? Well it's a part of my International Fellows course at Elon. We travelled to Tucson, Arizona to learn about immigration and the Mexican/US border. It's a lot more complicated than that, but there's the basic gist of it. So today started...well...yesterday. Our flight was at 5:30 this morning and we had to meet on campus at 3:30am so none of us really slept at all last night. We took off at 5:30 and let me tell you, I was unconscious before we left the ground. We got into Charlotte and then went right to our next flight which would take us to Phoenix. Once again, I was fast asleep for all 4 hours of that flight. Including the hour and a half we had to wait on the tarmac before we actually took off. The first thing we did once we landed in Tucson was go to lunch at the Phoenix Country Club. It was a beautiful place with a golf course (which my dad would love) and a nice restaurant. We got to eat some Mexican food which was delicious and tasted like actual authentic Mexican food so that was great. I'm anticipating a lot of Mexican food while here in Arizona!
After finishing our meal we got on the bus and drove for about an hour until we got to Coolidge, AZ where we visited a place called Casa Grande. It is a national monument consisting of the ruins of multiple structures built by the people of the Hohokam period in the 13th century. We only got to visit one site, the actual Casa Grande, and it was amazing and so beautiful! I gotta be honest though...one of the highlights of visiting the Casa Grande was meeting this gorgeous and extremely cute Golden Retriever puppy named Rudy! He was the cutest thing and I know my mom would have loved him! He was so friendly, and so was his owner! He demonstrated some tricks for us and it was great!
After we left Casa Grande we grabbed some dinner before we continued the drive to Tucson. When we got to our hotel it was pretty much do whatever you want until tomorrow. We didn't have any homework to do tonight and so from 6:00pm on we got to do whatever! All of us decided to go to the outdoor jacuzzi and that was probably the best decision of my life. It was so nice to relax in the hot water after such a long day and just hang out with each other. Tomorrow is going to be an exciting day! We're starting out with going to the Living Desert Museum and then the Arizona State Museum! I'm not really sure what either of these entail, but I'll let you all know tomorrow! It's good to be out having another great learning experience in a place I'm not very familiar with! I can't wait to see what this trip will bring!
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