WE’RE ALIVE! After 15 hours of travelling, we began our first day with a delicious breakfast provided by our bed & breakfast. With an assortment of fruits, cereals, Mexican style breakfast foods, pancakes, and waffles we filled up ready for our morning surf lesson. Maasai had Chilequilles, a Mexican style breakfast nacho, while Nicole had Belgian waffles. After breakfast, we packed into 3 vans and headed to Cerritos for our surfing adventure. Ashley, Kelsey, Nicole, Talia, Grace, Maddy, Lydia, Christie, Brenna, Eryn, and Aron were the brave first group of surfers. With a little help of some local professionals, they successfully caught their first wave within a few tries. At the same time, Rachel, Olivia, Iris, Caroline, Charlotte, Natalie, Maasai, Chris, and Kellie went with our tour guide Stephanie to check out some tide pools and take pictures with the high tide. After what felt like 4 hours, the two groups switched. We ate another yummy lunch on the beach which consisted of pasta, potatoes, Ceviche, chips, chicken, and of course hibiscus water, and relaxed on the beach for another hour. Side note: baby powder is great to bring to the beach because it takes off sand. Following our beach trip, we began our volunteer work with a local community. For the next three hours, we were split into two groups to help dig holes. One group of 10 went to a local school where we began our project of building an outdoor couch made out of recycled tires and plastic bottles. Our next mission is to restore a kitchen for the school, which had been destroyed by a hurricane in the recent years. Both groups dug holes, as the other half of the Baja crew were digging in the dirt for irrigation systems in an orchard. After a full day of outdoors, we returned to our hotel ready to shower, food, and sleep. Fortunately, since it was only 6 o’clock, once we ate hot dogs, chips, salad, and s’mores by the campfire, we revived for card games and laughing about on our first day in Baja. Signing off, we are getting ready to climb to the top of the waterfall during our three hour hike in the morning!
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