Posts in Advice & lessons learned from 2025

Reflecting on my ACE experience, a key moment that fed into the rest of the trip's work was listening to…

There are moments from my time in South Africa that I hope will never fade. Some were loud like the…

Over the last three weeks, I entered a world far different than my own, unaware of how I’d respond to…

I left for South Africa with the expectation that I would be teaching, serving, and helping others, but by the…

As we were departing from our last day at Vusa, a staff member who we spent a lot of time…

As I reflect on my time in Costa Rica, I’m flooded with vivid memories—snakes, enormous bugs, team games, a grueling…

“Jamma!” This is a word from the Bribri Indigenous language – spoken by one of the Costa Rican indigenous communities…

One evening in Costa Rica, I wrote in my reflection journal: “I won’t ever know what I don’t know.” This…

Throughout our two weeks, we spent a lot of time with the locals of Gandoca. One goal of our trip…