The Guatemala mission trip has long been offered to students after their junior and senior years, and the upcoming group will depart a mere five days after school’s end. The group of 31 students and teachers, including adviser Senora Lidibette Rosado-Guzman and Mr. John Porisch will fly from Minneapolis to Guatemala on June 11 and return June 23. Their destination is the Nuestros Pequenos Hermanos orphanage in Guatemala where they will be doing service work for twelve days.
While working in Guatemala, the students will be immersed in the culture and will travel into the markets and cities via the public transportation systems. “I’m really excited to see the differences between our culture compared to that of Guatemala,” said junior Annalisa Huge.
Aside from simply being around to assist with the children who reside at the orphanage and participate in physical labor, the BSM community will be bringing much more with them. During the spring months prior to the trip, a “hygiene drive” is occurring at BSM. “We are collecting much needed hygiene, clothing, and other necessary items and donating them to the Nuestros Pequenos Hermanos program, the program we’re helping out with during our time there,” said Huge.
The trip, in the past, has had a profound impact on those students who have attended. “This is a trip that I can’t recommend enough for BSM students,” said Zeman, “it was hands down the best experience I had in high school and I am dying to find a way to go back.”
