thank you

Georgia Slack

I cannot put into words how deeply this program has affected me, especially over these past four days.   It has always been hard for me to connect with people, even the people I have known since middle school.   However meeting these wonderful human beings is the greatest thing that has ever happened to me.  As Kane said today, the walls we have built around ourselves to hide our insecurities have been broken down over these past ten months and especially these past few days in our hard work, blood, sweat, and tears.  As a result we have grown ever closer and will cherish these memories for the rest of our lives.   We have worked on abandoned houses, overgrown parks with killer weeds and decrepit beaches all the while having the best of fun. This trip was not only about the work we did, but who we spent it with and how well we spent that time.  I am fully indebted to these wonderful people for changing my life forever.  I have been changed over these short few days that have somehow felt like a lifetime.  Returning from this trip I will be a new person, only not completely.   I won't know just much I changed until I start to experience life through the new perspective I have gained from this awe inspiring experience.   And I thank everyone who was apart of it.