A great experience:

Today I’m going to write about one of the best experiences in my life.

Last summer my friends and I went to Poland, we went there to volunteer, among other things, like visiting the country or praying.

We left on July 9, I remember I had to get up at three in the morning to get to the airport at four, at first I was very sleepy, but seeing my friends with luggage in hand made me forget that I wanted to sleep.

All the time we spent in Poland we slept in a kind of convent.

Every morning we went first to mass and after that, to a nursing home to help the elders, feeding them, making them happy with songs and dances, giving love to them, etc.

Most of the days we cooked our own food. After eating, we prayed every day.

In the afternoons we went to visit the city: Krakow, which is a big and beautiful city, with a lot of things to see. In my opinion, the most beautiful things of all are the central square and the Cathedral with its history, there is also plenty of shops, malls and a beautiful river running through the city, the river Vistula.

We did several things, one day we went on a boat through the river, it was gorgeous; other day we went to Wadowice, Pope’s Juan Pablo II home; we visited Schindler’s factory, Czestochowa sanctuary, this was very exciting and impressive to me and finally we went to Auschwitz and there are no words to describe how it is there, it was unpleasant and really shocking, I was struck by the silence that had all those rooms filled with personal belongings of those killed people in the concentration camp, the dimensions of it, and what the Nazis were able to do with these poor people. I think it's something you can’t imagine until you're there.

This is something that leaves its mark forever, something sad, when you're there you really feel it because you step yourself into the shoes of all those people, you're there, in one of the largest Cemeteries in the world, it is an indescribable feeling , something awful and you feel like wanting to mourn, but I don’t regret being there, on the contrary, I have lived the history, I'm grateful for it, this is something I think everyone should go there at least once in their life, so that this doesn’t happen again.

 We were there only 10 days, at first I thought it was going to be a long time in a very strange city but, the truth is that I missed more days, time passed very quickly.

For me, it was an incredible experience, people there, are very good and grateful, I guess for all that this country has experienced.

I made new friends and I met a new culture, I lived sad moments, some with fear, others very funny and others with feelings that I had never lived before, so I can say that it was a very complete experience, one of the best in my life.