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I had an amazing time on my trip. I can't feel my legs and I'm limping everywhere but I wish I could go back! I made a very good friend on the trip and his name is Dylan. He's so nice and just really cool and funny. -w- He's so awesome.

On my trip, I got to look through the 50,000 dollar telescopes of professional astronomers and look at galaxies and nebulas and even JUPITER! It had four moons visible at the time. 3nodding I slept outside, but it was so beautiful. The milky way was directly overhead with millions of stars and shooting stars across the sky every few minutes. BEYOND amazing. The food situation sucked, but it's okay because I was eating healthy. xp

We went hiking for six hours nonstop the first day up the Black Mesa which is the highest part of Oklahoma, or so the Pillar/monument says. The second day we drove to New Mexico and hiked 4 hours on the Capulin (?) volcano! Way cool. The hikes were required and I wasn't allowed breaks. Sucks right? I never get any exercise so my muscles hurt more than anything else and I'm limping so bad the limping makes me fall down. sweatdrop stressed I also fell on cacti a few times going up the black mesa. Every hike we did was nearly perfectly vertical uphill and so I would slide on the rocks a lot. Plus my four friends and I hiked up mountains and things on our own for fun. Fell of a cliff and ripped the crap out of my pants though. VERY painful. Though with my falling down I found out that cactus tastes good.

When I got "home" though, it did not feel one bit like home. It was saddening. I spent four days straight (little to no sleep so it felt longer) with a specific group of four people in the desert. When I got home, I felt out of place and alone sadly. xp Even now as I write this, I still feel out of place. Dylan, Jared, Brian, and Andy are nowhere around me and I don't think I'll ever see them again, which feels even more lonesome since we spent every second together.

School doesn't feel right either...also saddening. My friends that I already had before I left feel o distant now, as if I haven't talked to them in so long that I don't care anymore.

Either way, I'm saving up 65$ so I can go again next year and every year afterward mrgreen

I had such a blast...I wish I was there again with everyone else...