Once I return from volunteering in Kenya, reading through my pre-trip expectations should prove interesting. I jot a few here with anticipation of a more poignant reality to come…
- Heat, lots of it
- Hot, humid, lingering odors – livestock, people, the lou
- Mosquitoes
- Immense, true and valuable joy for all triumphs great and small
- The greatest sense of the word community
- A growing disgust for my country’s obsession with “more”
- A strengthened appreciation for all that I have
- A strong commitment toward responsible consumption of less
- The internal conflict born by bridging two distinct realities with my soul
- Knots – the ones in my back from shouldering the sorrows of the families I work with and the thought of having to leave them
- And the deepest satisfaction that can come only from being the slightest comfort to another human being