Wow, thoughts from the trip. I went into this trip not knowing what to expect, having everyone around me question the decision to go into a country with so much political unrest and the recent cholera outbreak. But despite all of this I had no fears, no doubts that what I had signed up to do, what I had paid for was the right thing despite all that said no around me.
This was by far the most life changing, eye opening experience of my life. Two things that stick out was watching the community in Kajouwan pour dirty water through a strainer to then drink and looking over at KC and saying this is why we are here. And then being able to pump clean clear water from the pump watching the pure excitement in the communities face as they drank fervently from the pump. Those two images will forever be burnt into my mind and still bring a tear to my eye. I will also never forget Lulu who was my little leach at the orphanage.
It was interesting coming back, maybe three days later I found myself in a very familiar place; in a small concert venue smack dab in the middle of a crazy mosh pit. It had been a dream of mine to see Underoath live and here I was, experiencing it first hand. It was weird though, I couldn't get into it for the life of me, it was almost a miserable experience. Here we were praising these musicians while being sprayed with bottle after bottle of water while there are people all over the world that do not have access to clean water. It was a very surreal experience.
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