Life changing experience

I just finish volunteering last week, and there are not enough words to explain how grateful I’m feeling for having had the oportunity to share life time with so many beautiful souls.

I was supposed to volunteer just for two weeks, but when time passed by I couldn’t imagine leaving so early; so I decided to extend one more week.
At first I was a little bit affraid because I had no experience teaching and I’m not a native speaker, but once I was at the Monday meeting listening about the vision and mision of the program, getting to know the amazing staff, how does it works, etc I started to feel very comfortable and cheerfull to do my best. Also what made me feel very confidence and happy was knowing that’s this volunteer is not only about teaching but also about learning. What really caught me was when in my first day Kimberly told us that if she would have wanted to have “perfect English” teachers for the kids she could have only accept experienced English teachers, but it wasn’t about that. It was about exchanging knlowledge, experiences, culture, joy, fun, learn and obviously teaching English. You can immediately see the transparency of this program and the will to really make a positive change in society.

At the end of the volunteer in VP Bali I end up with my heart full, full of sharing with the kids what makes your day happier, full of new friends, full of joy, better skilled, rich of experiences, lessons learned, amazing views, food, people, animals. I sweat out literally 💦☀️ and metaphorically speaking my mental and material attachments, your tightness, your comfort zone, being picky, enable to adapt and feel happier and lighter as a human being. To smile just because you are, to give because you feel, to recibe because there are plenty of good souls around the world that are welling to give. Even tough I was only volunteering for 3 weeks, this was a life changing experience, and this doesn’t ends up in Bali, but it’s the continuity of a better version of me expanding and sharing everywhere I go.

Alejandra Quintero
From Mexico .