blog post 3 - Jake Waits

My life experience doesn’t include much travel abroad considering my only trip outside of the country was to Nassau and didn’t offer much of a perspective on life outside of America because most of the places my family went were tourist spots. The trip didn’t change my perspective on life outside the united states because the citizens of Nassau lived like how I imagined it would be like from my memory. One thing I did notice though is that poverty is more prevalent and in the open compared to the U.S. There was a great deal of homeless and people in poverty on the streets compared to what I was used too. I think this is due to the fact that there are more places for the homeless to go to the U.S such as homeless shelters and churches. This experience enriched my educational environment because I feel like I have a more open mind to people's backgrounds now and am less judgemental.