I Dream of Africa

The past week, I had been working on my application for this company sponsored volunteer program to Kenya. Only two weeks long, I figured it would be the best opportunity to get a taste of travelling to Africa. If I get selected, I would be one of twelve people in an international team chosen for an all expenses paid, fully escorted trip to help out a small village in Kenya. It's not supposed to be a vacation, but rather two weeks of hard labour doing construction, hauling around supplies, working with the school and families, and a lot of homework at the same time. I've always thought about doing something like this, but I could never find anything like a two week duration.

Anyway, what I wanted to say was that it took me a really long time to answer the very simple questions they were asking me. If it's one thing that I've always found difficult, it's knowing which words to use and articulating yourself in the best way possible. I want to go on this trip, so how do I answer them so that I'm honest but sell myself in a way so they select me?

However, there are some instances where it doesn't matter which words you choose, they just always get you into shit anyway and it always deals with the parental units. As Nids explained simply, they are more difficult to understand than men. I quite agree! Oh like a million times over.

So I hope that I get to go to Kenya. I met a guy a few weeks back who recently finished med school and he told me that he had been in Africa for a few years. I'm not sure if I could ever make that commitment, but I imagine it to be a place where no matter what I say (unless it's absolutely offensive), people will be happy and grateful that I'm there, and where I'm just as happy to be there helping them.