Kino and Beginning of Homestays, by Sara Solanas

After spending an intense week in Mexico learning about the issues of illegal immigration, we went to Kino for 2 days. We rested and had a peaceful day on the beach. In the morning we had a couple of hours more to sleep in than the other days. We ate breakfast together as we had any other normal day and then we had some time to reflect about the past week, some kind of own quiet space. After our brief free time it became a pretty busy morning because we started to organize all our stuff, clean the places were we had stayed and worked on blogs and thanks notes.

It was amazing how good Kino was for all of us. After our first week together we started to get grumpy and really tired and the 2 days gave us a chance to breathe. The group is now becoming strong together and we are learning so much from each other. We are finding that we are a good team and as always, we were ready to go when it was time.

Time in the van passed without noticing and then we were there, in the plaza of Carbo. All of us looked at the “plaza” trying to imagine what could be there. Suddenly we saw a group of Mexican people standing in one of the corners. When the vans parked and before anyone could get out, a bunch of little Mexican children were waiting in front of the doors smiling at us. I was nervous about my host family but at the same time I felt protected and supported by my classmates. I was ready for my first real homestay.