Time of my Life
We spent our last full day in El Salvador Zip Lining from tree to tree, pouring buckets full of Chispa in the top layer of bricks on the house, sanding the walls from top to bottom, and dancing our hearts out with the community of Getsemani. It may have only been a few hours of working on our house today, but it was a full day of pouring our love and passion of change we have to the community.
每天的亮点是我的每一天都没有看到我们的小组在房子上做的进展。这是孩子们在街上走的笑容。突出显示是与社区中当地企业主的对话。昨天上午我们遇到了一个人，路易斯，他拥有自己的事业;他缝制着设计或言语，在公立学校的制服上。只有三年前，他是接受像我们这样的志愿者建造的新栖息地家的人之一。然而，他和他的家人是在Getsemani生活的众所旧的家庭之一。这是他所拥有的激情让他如此成功;与一个简单的想法相同，这是一个简单的想法使自己的生命或别人的生活的变化。
It was only a week ago when I wouldn’t have been able to tell you who was going with me to El Salvador, and if they were there for a beach trip to El Salvador or if they were there to spread their passion of making a different in the lives of others. Now, a week later I’ve witness the passion and commitment from my eight other team members, and it is safe to say this trip is all about the impact that only one person can make is so many different ways.
对我来说,过去的一周充满了西班牙式英语I learned in high-school, lots of smiles, but the majority of it has been passion. When thinking of a perfect week it doesn’t usually include sweating in the heat, or sifting rocks out of countless wheelbarrows full of sand; but this week does. This week was perfect to say the least; and no I don’t mean I didn’t fall a few times and have everything go my way. I mean that with nine seemingly random people with some connection to Babson, I had the time of my life.
by Maria Cobb ’15