The most defining experience of my life...

I spent two years working with the Mercy Volunteer Corps after I graduated from college. I worked in a hospital, an orphanage and a vocational high school. I was both challenged and empowered in all of these experiences. I lived with a community of people who were also working with MVC. These people have become some of my closest friends. My experience wasn't all butterflies and roses, but when people ask how my experience was...I always respond it was the most defining experience of my life. I met amazing people and discovered a new side of myself. My Guyanese family took care of me. The Sisters of Mercy have an incredible support system for their volunteers and they uniquely made me feel like an intimate part of their family. Guyana is a thread that weaves through the fabric of my life and find that it has helped to shape me into the person that I have become.