Looking Back

Ok so where do I begin.

It seems like only yesterday I was in the Shalom reception waiting to meet the group as they departed the coach looking tired from their long journey. How time fly’s as the two weeks are already over. Looking back at what we have achieved as a group and how proud each member of the team can be with their personal contribution.

The transformation the school has under took while we were there was amazing and to also see the transformation of some of the students from TSTC and to see them grow as people has been amazing. I was also amazed in the way the group absorbed and adapted to the surroundings they were in.

I feel very privileged to be a member of this team and i will take the memories from this trip, as i have done on the previous ones, and look back with pride at what the groups i have been with have achieved and the way in which we have changed the lives of many children.

In a strange way my personal highlight from this trip is the raw emotion that came from every single member of the team at the final assembly and there was no place to hide amongst all of the PCF students. I don’t think any one was expecting what happened and no one who had been on previous trips had seen anything like it.

I would just like to thank the group for letting me share the experience with them and i know they will all take memories with them for the rest of their lives. Remember always keep smiling because you never know what that smile may mean to someone else.

A wise man once said to me you can’t change the world but you can change somebody’s world.

Tom