Making everyday count

One day when I was a little girl, my parents asked me what I was doing to fulfill the full potential that I had within myself.  I often wondered what it was my parents meant by living my full potential with ambition. It wasn't until later on in life I found that limiting our potential to what others see of us is so limiting. We must be willing to sacrifice and go out of our comfort zone in order to truly find our potential. Since being here in Merida I have had to step out of my comfort zone and do things I never thought I would be doing. Teaching about 70 kids a day was not something I was expecting to do neither was it something I was ready for. But now that classes were starting I found myself thinking differently and processing things differently than I had before. I began to question and realize what I have liked and haven't liked doing. This week we had to prepare each day one lesson for all the kids and teach for five hours each day. At the end of two weeks, there is a performance day. Once we got to the community we were in for a treat, and little did we know that it would require every ounce of strength we had in the morning to do our very best for the children. I'm grateful that we once again have the opportunity to teach something that is so basic, but so helpful for the children here. The best part is knowing that if we do our very best, we ware able to enjoy our times together with those from the internships even more then we had before. As nervous as we were, we have never felt more welcomed and loved, then what we felt in the small community that was built.  I never thought I had that sort of potiential to teach in loving ways to those whom I barely know, and for that I am grateful.