Education

I have surprised myself this week with how much i have enjoyed being a teacher and an educator.  It has really been a joy for me to teach these kids all that i know about LA so far...all the issues, all the injustices, all the wealth, all the poverty, etc.  I get really fired up and passionate as I am sharing the facts, the information, and how this all effects people's lives.  I get most passionate as i move on to the application and the "What now?" for the kids and the adult leaders.  Now that we know about the sweatshops in LA and the vast number of homeless people..."what do we do now??  How should this effect my life?"  I like talking to the kids about how they can be apart of the change that can take place in our world..and how they SHOULD be apart of the change.  

I feel like when i am educating other people about the issues here and showing them how things like this go on all over the world this allows them to then also educate other people.  We have just become blind to injustice across the world.  I feel like when i am educating them i am opening their eyes to the truth and hopefully this truth can bring change....change for the people that are stuck living in poverty working in inhumane conditions, change for the broken, change for the needy, change for those who have no voice unless we give them a voice.

I still am not convinced that i want to be a teacher...sorry mom...but i see the power of education everyday that i am working here.  It is only through education and people being aware of the problems in this world that any change is going to come.  

I thank God that he has given me the ability to articulate my thoughts and emotions clearly to other people and that i can see them become passionate about issues as i am passionate about them as i speak about them.  And i thank God that he has brought me here this summer to educate!  All the praise to Him!