Living and Learning

=]......No computer smiley face can even come close to letting me express how much I love this topic!!!

I love traveling! Basically my whole year is based around the fact that I get to travel in the summer.  I hope to live a life in another country helping women and children in other countries.  The thing is without even planning for this I will learn so much from them.  See it took me a while to realize that when i think I am going to help someone I end up benefitting an equal amount if not more from the person I came to help.

This past summer I was extremely blessed and I was able to live in Tarpum Bay, Bahamas for a month.  I traveled and lived there for a total of only $200 for food!!!  I went to intern with four other random girls for a man who has a small non-profit organization based out of Tarpum Bay.  With this internship we worked hard saving a beautiful island from being turned into a resort, creating a heritage trail with a brochure for tourists coming to Tarpum Bay, working with the development of a local church, and the coolest part one of our jobs was to get to know the people there
and how they lived their lives.

I absolutely fell in love with the people there and I miss them so much.  I'm not sure how to say one thing I learned from one person so I will have to sum it up............

"Will the Prophet"- He called himself the fourth in the trinity. (pretty ironic huh?)   Well he was simply amazing! After giving him a peanut butter sandwich and becoming his friend he told us the story of how he fell from a plum tree and was sent to the hospital and hasn't been the same since then.  We ended up learning from others that he was now mentally handicapped because of his fall.  The crazy thing was, he saw nothing wrong with his condition.  He was one of the happiest people I have ever met even though he lived in a shack he built himself on the beach, he lived day by day hoping for food, and was alone.  He however would tell you otherwise.  In his own words I remember after an hour of conversation with him he said "people think that I'm crazy, but how can I be crazy for loving God?"  He made me realize the beauty of this world that we live in.  No matter how bad his circumstance seemed or how bad he felt, he always found the bright side in every situation. 

We can all learn from him. When it seems like things couldn't be worse we have to realize all that we do have! He helped me to see the beauty in a sunset, the awe in a chicken, and most importantly the love and wonder of my God!

Peace Out,
Adrienne Pitre

Will- just sitting on the curb outside of the local grocery store, where he would normally ask if we had any money so he could get a soda :)








JUST SOME RANDOM PICTURES OF PEOPLE I WILL NEVER FORGET