After all, this was my first college spring break. Why not spend it at the beach or at home seeing my high school friends? However, the more I heard from upperclassmen, the more I was intrigued. After participating in the trip, I can say that it was well worth not spending a week at the beach or back at home.
One of my favorite parts of the trip was bonding with the upperclassmen as well as growing closer with people of my own class. Our trip was blessed with an array of Levines with such diverse personalities that there was never a dull moment.
The church we stayed at was quite nice, despite the mishap on the first night. As we were settling in to go to sleep, we were told by Dr. Z to pack our things and be ready to leave. The pilot lights on the stove had gone out, leading to a buildup of propane that was not safe for us to sleep in the building, and the gas company was not scheduled to come out until the following morning.
We all packed our things and loaded the vans back up as we headed out to the only hotel in town that had any rooms available the President just so happened to be holding a convention in North Charleston that night.
I would have to say that the van ride to the hotel was one of the funniest parts of the trip, producing the iconic describing the stoplights all turned on to caution mode at midnight quote from Dr. We took the last rooms of the hotel and went off to sleep, ready to go to work the next morning.
