Let me start with two quotes,
"The purpose of life is the live it, to taste it, to experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience."- Eleanor Roosevelt
and
"Adventure is worthwhile."-Aristotle
These two quotes caught my eye the first time I saw them,
because I feel as if they have a meaning to what we are doing, a personal
meaning that is. Some may not agree with them but that is my opinion. This has
been a great adventure to me and I know it will be an even greater experience
when we get there. I just wanted to point out how hard everyone has been
working on the preparation of this new adventure we are going to be taking
together, especially Sophia and Danielle. I can’t believe it is only four more
days until we hop on the first plane to fly to Toronto and then off to the
Dominican Republic. I have been looking
forward to doing a trip like this my whole life, it had always been a goal of
mine and I am stoked to be able to achieve it. The biggest thing is I wouldn’t want
to achieve this goal with any other group of people. Even though we only see
each other once a week, every Wednesday evening, I feel as if I’ve already made
such a connection to so many individuals that are on this team. Everyone on our
Algonquin College team is unique in their own way which makes us diverse; with strengths
and weaknesses we can help each other through before, during and after our time
in the Dominican Republic. I am proud to call them my team and I am proud of
all the efforts we have made and pushed through together.
On a side note, I woke up this morning and took my malaria pills;
this was such a wakeup call to me, because I realized how close I was to
leaving and I haven’t even started to pack yet! Oops! I should really start, I
will tomorrow. Someone in my class today brought me Spanish/English translation
books and that is when I realized that it wasn’t just the support of the group
that is going, we were getting support from the population of Algonquin College
and in some cases even the public! I wanted to give a BIG thank you to all the people
supporting myself and my team on our journey!
T – 4 days! Let’s get this adventure and experience of a
life time started!
- Sarah Timmins
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