So, I don’t have any pictures for this post, but I might throw in a few from the safari we went on at the end of the week. I don’t think I’ll blog about that, but some of the pictures are fun. But I wanted to tell you about the rest of day 2.
When we got back from the Masai village we went straight to dinner at a hotel near ours. We were meeting some Compassion people from their Leadership Development Program (LDP). This is a program for the elite of Compassion children who have great potential. They are sent to college and participate in mentorship programs. It’s a great program that creates some great people and I’m so grateful that we got to meet some of them.
We had dinner with some of the college students and it was so much fun. Trent, on of my fellow interns, and I sat with a guy named Wilson. He was a college student studying Microbiology. He was awesome. He talked about how much his Compassion sponsor meant to him and how much he wished he could meet her and just give her a hug and tell her how thankful he was. He also talked about how much he wanted to give back to his community and help other people the way he had been helped. We talked about other stuff too. Winston watches a lot of western movies and TV shows, but some things were confusing to him. He asked me if everyone in America has a car, what Thanksgiving is, and what Prom is and why is it so bad? hahaha. He was very entertaining.
What was so cool about the dinner was that they were college students just like me. They were fun, and bright, and had huge potential. And if it wasn’t for Compassion, they would be no where. They wouldn’t be able to get an education, or even get out of the village or slum they grew up in. Compassion gave them hope and changed their lives. I knew that all along, but it really sunk in that night, because they were so much like me, but we came from such different worlds. It was incredible.
Here are a few safari pictures:
