- Delaney

Alaska Is...

       Alaska is what I’ve wanted all along.
Where beauty got its name.
Mother nature at her best
Alaska has a sweet sense of home, no matter where you’re from
I sit here, hidden, protected
From the eye of the devil
No one can see me,
I can’t see them.
I am kept company form the mountains overhead
The songs that the waves sing
Teach me
To be
Optimistic
Outgoing
Free
I have no worries

Final Reflections

         Three weeks is a long time.  There can be a lot of drama in that time, but there can also be a lot of opportunities.  In the beginning they can be limited to climbing a mountain, or seeing a whale.  At the end of a few days it could be broadened to making new friends and breaking thick ice.  But after three weeks you will realize that the opportunity here is greater than what you bargained for.  At the end of three weeks you may have climbed a mountain, you might have seen a whale, but I’ll bet you’ve never known that the person over there that you’ve never spoken to in your entire life has been in all your classes since the second grade.  This is not just an opportunity to visit the most unpredictable and magnificent places on the Earth.  It is and opportunity to find your true colors then show them and hope for the best.  Alaska teaches you that.