The light at the end of the tunnel is finally here--Spring Break. After a tumultuous beginning of the semester with multiple snow days, this semester has been chaotic. Classes have rearranged and tests have been moved off track.
Some classes have even had to reschedule to Saturdays. The break is finally here, and students are going all over the globe to take advantage of their week of freedom.
One option students had was to apply for an Alternative Student Break through Auburn University. They had options to go internationally or domestically.
One of the trips is going to Disney World with the program Give Kids the World. Students will be working with children with life-threatening illnesses or disabilities.
"It's basically an opportunity for terminally ill and some disabled kids to come and have a paid trip to Disney," said Allison McKinley, president of Alternative Student Breaks and senior in nutrition. "Our volunteers go and [. . .] help out with their entertainment and really kind of just make the week about them, and they volunteer their time just to make that Disney week for them just as normal as any other kid."
McKinley said more than 80 students applied for the trip, but only eight were chosen. Another trip Alternative Student Breaks provides goes to New Jersey to help with disaster relief for Hurricane Sandy.
The program is through the Fuller Center for Housing and will be benefiting the Tabernacle community.
Other students are leaving the country to explore new areas. Cassie Rawles, junior in economics, is going to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, for spring break. Rawles is staying at a friend's house with approximately 20 of her friends.
"We fly into Cabo San Jose and then take a shuttle," Rawles said. "I think we're going zip lining one day, and then [. . .] we might take a boat out."
Rawles said she has never been to Cabo San Lucas before, and she is most excited about relaxing in the sun and having nothing to do. Rawles and her friends are staying in Montecristo Estates, which is a part of Pueblo Bonito Sunset Beach.
Another group of students are going abroad through Campus Crusades, to Managua, Nicaragua.
Allison Childress, junior in public relations, has been going to Campus Crusades since freshman year. Childress heard about the trip from previous years and decided to sign up.
Childress said the group will stay at a Chosen Children Ministries camp. Each day, they will split their group up into different teams to work in different areas doing door-to-door evangelism, bible school with the children, or building houses and working construction.
"It's all in the same area, but your job might change each day," Childress said. Childress said she's excited to meet the people going on the trip with her. "I haven't been on a mission trip, like an international mission trip, since my freshman year of high school," Childress said. "This isn't something I do all the time, so I'm just excited to see like where it may lead and who all I'm going to meet, and [. . .] the relationships that I'm going to develop."
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