We gathered where a big circle of students was already sitting.
My group members and I got the first of several sandwiches we would eat by the time we returned to the U.S. With minimal sleep, I was feeding off the energy of everyone who was dancing around me, laughing and speaking all different languages. I remember the day well I had just gotten to Poland after an 18-hour trip. Nati and I met on the second day of the MAGIS program while sitting on a football field on University of Łódź grounds. One of those reasons was the beginning of a friendship with my good pal Natalia, who I got to see again for the first time in almost two years. Not to be cliché, but that trip changed the course of my life for a lot of reasons. World Youth Day is an event where the Catholic youth of the world gather to see the Pope, and MAGIS is a program specifically for Jesuit-university students to come together. I travelled around Poland while attending MAGIS and World Youth Day. In July of 2016, I had my first trip overseas to Europe.
