Noah

I have just won this amazing trip to Africa! I won it through a raffle in the mall. I am going to be able to visit multiple countries, and see amazing sites and landmarks. I cannot wait! My tickets are going to be coming in the mail next week, and I will be arriving to my first country, May 15. I have already decided which country am going be visiting first, Algeria. My tickets have arrived, my bags are packed and I am ready to go. I am already entering the plan and getting ready for takeoff. I have to get going, the pilot just announced that “all passengers please be seated and pay attention, we will be watching a short video about our flight, and then be lifting off.” So good bye for now, and I will write to you when I arrive in Algeria tomorrow morning.
 * Prologue:**

Day: 1 Today I will be staring my day of by staying In Algiers, the city that my plan landed in. Today I will just seeing how the culture is and how things are there; I bet they are way different than the United Sates, where I live. I am hoping to try new food, go into cool stores and learn interesting facts about the city. I have signed up for a class that is going to be taught about the city, we are going to be taught by a teacher named Soraya.
 * __ALGERIA__**



Day: 2 Today is day 2nd of my trip Africa. I am ready and excited to spend my 2nd day in Algeria, the first country I chose to go to. I am going to be staying in Algiers. There I am going to be helping rebuild an old orphanage. This will be very fun each tourist in my group that coming to help will be grouped with a kid, the kid will help them build. I was paired with a little boy that is 9yrs old his name is Hamza. He is such a nice kid, he also taught me some facts about his country. I had never known this but Algeria has the 5th least amount of orphanages out of all the countries in Africa and has the most kids! You would think that with having the most kids you would have the most orphanages. But that’s not the case; all we can do is support, help, and hope it gets better. While I was with Hamza, I helped fix the basketball hoop and swings. What was really awesome was that the kids thanked us so much for the little things that we could do to help. They are really grateful I would love to come back someday and help again.

After a long helping the orphanage, I am really tired and have to get some rest. Since I have been invited to stay the night at the orphanage, I am going to play a few games with the kids and then hit the hay.

Day: 3 After being woken by the kids at the orphanage, I am ready to continue my journey through Algeria. I will be leaving the capital city ,Algiers and going to a small town. There I am going to be riding camels. I can’t wait, camels are one of my favorite animals, and they are so interesting. In the brochure for this event, it says that we will be learning how camels helped Algeria during certain times, and we will be seeing how they act in their habitat.

Sorry it has been so long since the last time I wrote to you guys about my trip! I have been so caught up with all the fun that I have been having; I also have learned so much. Did you know that camels can go several days without water, and if needed even up to 2 months? The most interesting things were how they helped Algeria. They helped Algeria by getting them where they needed to get in times; they used camels because they could go long periods of time without water and food so they didn’t need to bring food or water for them. They needed to get places for trading gold for salt because back then salt was worth more than gold because salt could and still can be used to keep meats and other foods good and make them not go bad as they regularly would without salt. I also got to ride some camels. They are rough to ride and riding them is really bumpy. The upside is that they are really friendly and listen well. I would love to ride and spend time with them more often. I am going to miss them when I leave Algeria, but you never know; I like them so much I might just make time in another country, so I can ride and see them.