The Journey

For the next two weeks members of the Green Team from Sherwood High School in Maryland will be posting entries on their experiences visiting their sister-school in Yelapa, Mexico! The first one is below!
Enjoy!
-Jess :)


This is a really interesting experience because usually I am the one, sitting in my house in Olney Maryland, reading of Jessica's wild and amazing travels. Yet now I am the one posting the experience on the OWYP blog myself.
I am part of an environmtal club in Sandy Spring, Maryland called the Green Team, and now with the enormous help and planning from One World Youth Project I am sitting in front of a lap top, with 8 other students from the Green Team, surrounded by the rain forest, with the sound of the ocean in the backround, in Yelapa.
My first reaction to Yelapa when we got off the boat 2 days ago was one of awe. It is a town of more than two thousand people nestled between the densely covered Jalisco Mountains and the vast Banderas Bay. The town itself is beautifully imperfect with cracked narrow sidewalks, and rusty iron fences but also beautiful clean beaches architecturally interesting houses.
Right now I'm off to the beach. Members of the Green Team are switching off writing about our experiences. I look forward to telling you all about the culture of, and our experiences in Yelapa soon.
-David Bronstein (member of the Green Team)