There's this special program for minors to go out and see the world called the People to People Ambassadors program, started by president Eisenhower to improve world relations. For the past three years, I've been invited to go on some of these trips, which is a pretty big honor. Last year the program went going to go to Ireland. This year it's going on a tour of Italy, France, Switzerland, and Austria.

But there's a catch.

We have to pay the fees-- which are somewhere around $5,000 on average. I don't have that much money. I don't even dream about that much money. My family is a poor lower-class one that just this summer was struggling to make it after my mother lost her job.

I would love to go, you have no idea how much. But I just can't.