I tiredly walked from our soft bright homestead to the giant animal shelter in Guatemala.
“Mom, where are we going?” I said.
My mom smiled, replying, “To the shelter, I told you we were going to volunteer.”
We walked for about another mile through busy streets and buses. We had to follow a map to get there because it was our first time in the bright busy streets of Guatemala. We got to the massive shelter which was filled with smells of avocado in the air from the many trees on the property. It was run by one person with over 70 dogs at one time. We came to volunteer to walk the soft, dirty dogs. We didn’t speak much Spanish so we didn’t know much of what she was saying, but we tried our best. She took us to a cage with about 15 dogs in it and I got a dog that was blind in one of her eyes. She had blue eyes and smelled a little but there weren't many people to give her a bath anyway.
We walked to the rough jagged hill near the back of the walled-in property and started to walk the energetic dogs. They were excited to get to walk because they don’t get to go every day. When we got to the top of the steep hill, we walked back down near the gate, finding many of the dogs that didn’t need leashes eating the Avocados from the bright trees. We stopped them, making sure they couldn't take a bite, upsetting their stomachs. I strained, pulling on the leashes as the hungry dogs kept trying to get to the delicious avocados.
We gathered up the hot, tired dogs, bringing them back to their cages.We checked many different spots where they could’ve gone. We also monitored the scorching streets while leaving just in case any went under the gate. We got to the bus station where cramped buses were packed full and driven down the rocky streets. We got out of the filled bus and walked down the beautiful streets of Antigua, Guatemala. We reached home about five minutes later and checked how long we walked and it said five miles. We didn’t think we walked that long because we weren’t tired. Then we laid down, feeling the five miles of walking immediately and fell asleep.