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By China at 7:42 PM

I have been planning the last few days for my late summer religious tours. My vacation will also include a little bit of missionary work while I have break from my tours of the holy lands. I have been planning this trip for like two years now in terms of what I want to do, but now I have finally set out to spend the money and make the commitment. I have felt wary ever since I started college of spending so much on a vacation or even for mission travel. It changed a month ago or so when I was looking at a trip web site just for fun and I looked in to missionary flights. I found out that various missionary travel sites offer church airfares. These airfares are generally less expensive for anyone who buys them because they are just larger airlines chartered specifically religious flights. I won't be going on the trip with anyone so I will be alone and with these flights that seemed to be easier. I hope the flights go well since I don't really like to fly and it is going to be a series of very long flights with a large group of people I have never met before. Long flights like this usually make me pretty sick so I don't know how I am going to handle a bunch of them all in a row like this. Hopefully the images of what will happen when we arrive will keep me motivated and excited even with motion sickness and cramped conditions. When I get there I am only going to be staying in either people's homes I have emailed or with people who own small cottages they rent out daily. I knew that even without the considerations of a very small student budget, that I wouldn't want to stay in any big places just because I feel that you don't get the full effect of a culture if you stick to the resort world. I think that it is the job of the resorts to keep you from noticing that you have gone somewhere where anything but the weather has changed. I want to be shocked, and I want to be changed.