My Friday night 🥰

After all day on a school trip, it was too late, and dark, for some students to walk home by the time we got back, so these three girls stayed with me! 👏🏽

My smile couldn’t be any bigger and my heart couldn’t be more full 💜
Games, singing, dancing and a lot of laughing

A perfect and unexpected last night @thenairoshifoundation thank you 🙏🏽

This is a post I wrote a couple of years ago after spending two weeks at a school in Narok, Kenya.

It wasn't the first time I've volunteered in a developing country, but the magic and satisfaction is always as great as the first time, actually, maybe even better because you know what to expect.

What Volunteering Taught Me:

• Happiness isn't materialistic: Step into any classroom and there is a different vibe than you would feel at home. It's happiness, it's joy and it's passion, radiating from the children and the teachers alike.

• Perspective: You look around and there's no latest [insert any new material here], there's booking falling apart, hand drawn posters everywhere and colouring pencils scattered around. There's also passion and kindness in the eyes of anyone you look at. With so little, people are living, not just surviving, living. What do we really need to be happy and satisfied in our lives?

• Satisfaction: Every night of my trip I went to sleep with the biggest smile on my face. My heart was full of love and gratitude.
  I was there to teach them, but I think I ended up learning more from their way of life than I was teaching.

• Connection: Although I couldn't speak with many people (especially the youngest and the older generation) due to a language barrier, I felt a level of connection with them that was just magical. A hug, real eye contact and genuine laughter. Do we need full conversation to feel connection?

I am so grateful for this experience, and recommend it to anyone looking to step out of their comfort zone.