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Connect With Us! Sloan Museum, Longway Planetarium & Buick Automotive Gallery Secret Agents, Mystery, & More TOP SECRET Sloan Museum, Longway Planetarium & Buick Automotive Gallery Sponsored by: Sept. 19, 2015 - Jan. 3, 2016 Produced by: Designed and produced by: Sloan Museum 1221 E. Kearsley Street Flint, MI 48503 • 810.237.3450 • SloanMuseum.org $1.00 off admission (up to 4 people) Good at Sloan Museum only. General admission only. Can not be used for groups or combo tickets. Expires 12/30/15 Code: Kids Standard Come see a brand new holiday light show combining 16 songs including several holiday classics, a few new hits, and a couple fun Christmas songs you might not have heard. All of this will be set to stunning 4k visuals in a Sloan Museum, Longway Planetarium & Buick Automotive Gallery festival of Christmas splendor. Be sure to add this to your holiday to do list and you won’t be disappointed. Walton & Becker Eyecare PC E FP TOZ LPED P E C F D E D F C Z P F E L O P Z D Have you had your eyes checked this year? Walton and Becker EyeCare provides comprehensive eye examination to people of all age Produced By Monday - Friday at 3:30pm Saturday & Sunday at 4:30pm until Until December 23, 2015 Longway Planetarium 1310 E. Kearsley Street Flint, MI 48503 • 810.237.3400 • Longway.org $1.00 off admission (up to 4 people) Good at Longway Planetarium only. General admission only. Can not be used for groups or combo tickets. Expires 12/30/15 Code: Kids Standard •Dr. Wendy Nielubowicz•Dr. Elizabeth Becker•Dr. Tracy Moran• 837 S. Lapeer Rd, Oxford, MI 48371 248•628•3441 www.waltonandbecker.com Sloan Museum, Longway Planetarium & Buick Automotive Gallery
TRAVEL Love Knows No Borders BY: HANNAH ROBERTSON 11th grade, Clarkston High School At the age of fifteen, you would never really expect someone to ask you a simple but stumbling question, “Do you want to build a house...in another country?” This past summer, building a house for a less fortunate family through the organization Project Mexico became what I decided to really do. On July 7th, at around 4:30am, I hopped on a plane with my mother and a few other close members of St. Mark Orthodox Church, in hopes to contribute to the world. We stopped in San Diego, California, first. There, the roads were paved and the houses hit higher than a mountain. People were happily biking, riding their mopeds, and walking. There were outdoor cafes and shops with windows fully open. This pleasant scenery had changed abruptly, however, as we began to cross over into Tijuana, Mexico. From the car, bouncing on roads made of dirt, all I could see out my window were miles upon miles of houses, stacked on one another and built on top of landfills. In disbelief, I watched numerous people sitting on the corners of streets pleading for pesos. It truly was a shocking sight to see, which kept bringing one word into my mind - poverty. As we approached St. Innocent Orphanage, where we were staying for the week, I began to comprehend the setting. Not being able to contact anyone outside of Mexico was really nothing compared to a lack of other “conveniences” we took for granted. Noelle, the instructor for my group, explained how things around there worked: warm water was limited; toilets could not be flushed with toilet paper in them; there were no electric outlets and almost no indoor seating, except for the La Tienda, which means “The store” in Spanish. Sleeping only in a sleeping bag, in a tent, every night and waking up to eat rice, beans, and tortillas in the morning, was the routine. Makeup or flat ironing my hair no longer applied while I had never felt more internal wonder than when I realized how my actions and my presence in the world had affected this family for the rest of their lives. in Mexico. What did apply, however, was teamwork and love. It was more than a privilege to do this work with team members from other Orthodox churches around the United States. They traveled from many states to contribute to the same cause as I did, and I bonded with them like with no others. They became my best friends, if not my family, throughout this journey. I woke up with them, sat with them, ate with them, and worked with them. Throughout the week, we continuously worked on the house. Day by day, it was a new step as harder work was required than a day before. Around day three, I met the family. The mother's name was Karen, and her little girl, about 6 years old, was named Brisa. They helped us build their new house. During lunch breaks, I spent time getting to know Brisa and later would help her spread stucco around the house. Stucco was made of concrete, dirt, and water. It was incredibly difficult to mix and usually required four people to rotate mixes. We had to smack the concrete to make the floor and contract the amount of air bubbles left behind to prevent cracking. Everything was done by hand; there was no electricity to guide us. So each day felt a lot rougher because we grew very tired. But we didn’t stop until the house was finished. Standing in the house, holding the keys to the future of this family, and knowing how secure they would feel in the home which all thirty of us had built with every ounce of love we could give, was the most defining moment of my entire life. I had never felt more internal wonder than when I realized how my actions and my presence in the world had affected this family for the rest of their lives. It was while I was building a life for others that I was re-built into a more tolerant, loving, open-minded person. Love knows no borders. December 2015 13 Publication INC.
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