Life Changing Moments

Recently I had the opportunity to reconnect with the children I met in Cambodia during the winter session. I called the teacher's cell phone Nita Smile who became one of my closest friends during my phone conversation with the teacher Nita put her cell phone on speaker phone. All the children greeted me and said "Hi Joana we miss you and love you". After the phone conversation, it had me thinking the time I spent in Cambodia while short has left a life long impression on me. It was the first time I felt that I had doing something either for myself and it made me humble.

The children of Palm Tree are either orphans or had been abandoned by their parents, they have done through of the most tragic moments any person could ever go through. But it still it did not take there smile and joy away from them. It put things in perspective for me that the problems I may have cannot compare to what they have gone through and yet they can still smile and give so much love to others at the darkest moments in their lives.

I would encourage anyone to do some sort of volunteer work when you help others. It can be the best decision  you can in your life. Now while I teaching children how to speak english, I learned more from them like how to be positive in any given situation and to believe in the good of humanity.