Goals! (No, not the field goal that led to the Broncos defeat..)

Somebody once told me that before I go abroad I should make a list of personal goals. The reason was so, even if the program did not fulfill the expectations, my experience can still be a successful one. 

During orientation today our Trustees Fellow, who is traveling with us, asked:
"What do you hope to bring to the learning community?" and "What do you hope to learn?" We wrote our answers on the sticky notes and posted them on the board with vulnerability. Extracting from those two questions, I decided to create a list of some goals. 

Discover and explore my purpose in (or out) of the Global Health realm. 

Learn about my strengths and weaknesses, that can only be done by uncomfortable exploitation. 

Travel in a spirit of humility and modesty.

Have a genuine desire to strengthen my relationship with God through devotionals and meditation. 

Cultivate the habit of good note taking, observing, and listening. 

Illuminate some poor assumptions and biases that I may have and question their origins. 

Train myself to see the strengths and powers of a country along with the inequalities and failures. 

Share life stories (and bad jokes) to my group, new people that I meet, and my host family. 

And most importantly, don't die. That way, I can share my experience with my loving family and (future) children. 

Watching The Last of the Mohicans, 
Lynn 


Also, a poem in honor of our loss tonight: 

Is it sad that football can..
break my heart easier than any man? 

Though the game was pure heart and fight,
It was the worst way to end my night. 

The refs were so bad, they cause a roar
Oh, that’s right, they must have been from Baltimore! 

I thought Ray Lewis was going to retire,
But now he’s got me singing Adele, "But I set fire... "