Reflection from Mark

The first 3 days of our trip was touring around Ireland and at the same time was also learning about their history, part of the missions training where we need to learn everything about the irish language and accent, slang, how they interact with each other and more. The second day right when we got to Belfast is when we met up with the exchange people and sat down with them for basically all day to do all those learning so both sides can learn because because the American exchange people are also from different places like  Pennsylvania, Alaska, Indiana, and Illinois where we all have different cultures.

 We were surprised to find that our words for different things and our  accent is also hard for the Irish people so we can all work together as a teams especially if we're gonna be dealing with the irish kids and all those before we actually got into the real objective. Our work is to be in a camp were we help out and be counselors for the kids as they call it camp leaders in Ireland. Sky camp was hard for the kids also as they're coming from different places in Belfast were there is a lot of tension going on between Catholic and Protestant; some people would say the tension between two sides is because of the politics and some  because of religion. 

Sky camp's purpose was to be the middle person and peacemaking were kids could become a better person and know how to make they're  country better in the future because as other people say " kids, young kids is the future". I definitely experienced God through the camp on how He let us travel just to be a good examples for the kids, that no matter what religion you are or what culture you are we all have in common and that is to love, compassion and more for one another.

Mark Alcantara