Reflections from Siyani Fullerton

As December begins, we are just about a month away from our departure to the Dominican, and I have been reflecting on what I hope to gain from the experience of this trip. Having gone to Catholic schools for most of my life, community service has always been stressed as something that should be a regular part of our life. I feel that this trip is going to give all of us a view of extreme poverty that we probably have never seen before. We will be living where we work, experiencing exactly what the locals live day-in and day-out, meaning that we will have a true understanding of third world poverty, not just numbers and statistics.