Enjoying what challenges you

Doing a voluntary project in a totally different country with a culture that couldn‘t be more different from the one that you‘re used to is definitely a challenge that will bring you to your limits and there will be moments when you won’t know how to overcome them anymore - but you will grow from them.

During my voluntary project with One World Center I worked together with my team to restore and build organic home gardens,to mobilize people and to teach them about out work and why it is important.

By doing so I learned a lot about working together with people from a different culture and finding solutions for problems together. Not everything we planned worked out in the way we wanted it to and we definitely had to adapt a lot to challenges that we didn’t expect, but in the end we always learned from our mistakes and this is how you grow.

Sometimes getting out of your comfort zone and trying to challenge yourself is the only way to find out who you are and what is important for you in life. It took me a while to understand that and to realize that from this perspective it is even possible to enjoy the things that are challenging you instead of letting them drive you to despair.