The Same Moon... Past Review

This experience, like all my travels, was amazing. It was most definitely worthwhile. The difference from all my other travels is that I took on the role of a teacher, but learned that everyone involved (including us teachers) were still the students, and we all learned from each other. My students taught me about myself, about their culture, about friendship, about being a good person, being compassionate, loving....they taught me so much. I can only hope they learned as much from me as I did from them. We went into this program thinking that the teaching would be the worst part of the trip and it ended up being the best. We took away so much from that camp. We took friendships and life lessons. That in itself beats any expectations I had for the camp. The best part was seeing my students grow. They were shy, quiet and needing English improvements. By the end, we got them to come out of their shell, be very sociable, talk, speak more English and become a tight knit family. It was an incredible thing to watch develop. On a professional level, I found that I really liked the teaching and may pursue it further in my career choice. I can't be happier with my experience and I would do it again in a heartbeat. Leaving was really hard for everyone, there were lots of tears. By leaving, and seeing the tears fall we realized what all had happened during camp. We realized how valuable everything was...including the impacts we had on each other. One of my students told me our last night while sitting on the soccer field "We may be far away, but we will always think of each other, because we will always sit under the same moon". There isn't a day or night that I don't think about them and all the incredible moments we shared.