2) I have heard stories about how this trip is life changing. How the girls find it so easy to be themselves in a culture that is so different from their own, yet find themselves surrounded with beautiful people who all have wonderful hearts. You …show more content…
There are always way too many volunteers, which is a blessing, but I tend to stray away from the more physical parts of volunteering because those jobs are taken. I like to sit down and talk to the homeless because time after time people give them material things. They receive food, water, clothing, and housing, but they are still lonely. This is the only service I do all year were all I am doing is giving love. I am simply talking and I have been told that is what they are the most thankful for that Thanksgiving. That cute old vet in the purple hat, might not even mean those words, but it fills me with so much joy. The feeling of being told you have changed someone is the most empowering feeling I have ever