Changing lives

I believe the one time I felt I made a difference in someone’s life was when we painted the schools in Jamaica and gave them school supplies. When we first arrived at the schools we had to clean out the two buildings (two rooms) which we were painting. I had never seen a cockroach before that and I tried not to freak out when they came out from beneath the books or their play things. I didn’t want to make them feel abnormal for having them there. Some of the children even came in the room and helped kill the insects. When we were done with the rooms, there weren’t any cockroach that’s for sure. We had cleaned everything and painted the walls and painted shelves and tables. We also had recreated some of their classroom learning tools that could not be reused after our transformation. When we came back to see the children in their classrooms after they were finished, they seemed proud and so did the teachers. They sang for us and while they were singing I think that’s when I realized how such a little change made by us made such a big difference in their lives. That moment made me decide that I have to take opportunities like more often which is why I am going to Russia in the summer.