For our Freshman year trip we went to Arkansas and took part in the Heifer Ranch Simulation. Heifer Ranch is located on 1,200 acres of land that is split up into different campsites. Each campsite represents a third world country with similar housing, food, and amenities. During my time at Heifer I was put into the poorest campsite; the Indian slums. For shelter we stayed in an open style house with a corrugated tin roof and a dirt floor. At night we had to cook our rice dish which was easy for us because I started a fire on the first night. Dinner proved to be harder for all the other countries because none of them could start a fire so they all came over to the slums and mooched off of ours. Although the traffic made our campsite pretty hectic, it did teach me about sharing your resources. Because we had fire we tried to share it with as many of the other countries as possible. Heifer was an important learning experience for me because I had the chance to recognize different perspectives from impoverished countries around the world. We learned about sharing resources and how people live day to day in comparison to our American lives.