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West coast

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 6/10/23 I flew into Phoenix, AZ for my last big trip on my exchange. It was once again with Belo USA! I couldn't be happier with this organization, the staff are wonderful people and make it such a great experience. I landed, this time without any complications and went to the baggage claim. I saw a bunch of exchange students so I came over and introduced myself. We immediately became friends and got to talk about our year. Then we got to the hotel with a shuttle bus and checked in with the other two staff members. We also received our shirts with all the people on this trip printed on the back side. I started investigating and there were 5 of us from the same district. Later in the day we had group dinner where they explained all the rules and after that all of us went to the pool since it's so hot in Phoenix. We also managed to explored the surroundings of our hotel and ran into a bunch of crackheads which was quite unpleasant. The streets were dirty and full of homeless peo
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Buffalo River adventure

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 5/12/23 On Friday we embarked on our short adventurous journey, to the Buffalo river in the northern part of Arkansas. After driving for a few hours we arrived to the area. We crossed a beautiful creek and had only a couple of minutes left to go until we arrive. However, an unfortunate event occurred. We drove over a few not so big rocks and the car suddenly stopped working. Thankfully, we were really close to our destination so we could just walk over to our lodging. We stayed in a beautiful forest cottage with a hot tub outside. We went there as a big group of 3 families so each family stayed in their own cottage. Ours was named  "the Farmhouse", the interior was decorated in the same theme. The first evening me and all the kids played some poker and blackjack and we also checked out the jacuzzi. 5/13/23 This was the big day. We had breakfast and left around 10 am. The drive was around 1 hour and 15 minutes long. On the way there we saw the beautiful Ozark mountain range,
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East coast

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My first out of two Belo USA trips was the tour of New York City, Philadelphia and Washington DC. It was scheduled for 22-29th April. The beginning of this trip turned out to be a little adventure by itself. 4/22/23 My flight was supposed to leave at around 11 am from the Memphis airport. So we left Wynne the day before and slept at a condo in Memphis. In the morning Neall dropped me off at the airport and I was at the gate in time. After some time I got a weird notification so I checked the app of the airline and noticed a weird message. It said that the flight is cancelled due to weather conditions. I was the first one to notice the message our of all the people waiting there so I asked them if they see it too and unfortunately they got the same message as I did. We waited at the gate for some time and waited for the travel agent to arrive to see what we should do. After like 30 minutes the lady arrived so a hoard of people started talking to her including this old couple from Edinbu
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