These bloggs have been so challenging in that sense that most of the time I just don’t feel like doing them but then I realize why I am assigned to do them. This project has been a great experience and it has help me to see life in a whole different light. I now see things and people for what they really are. I also have a new found respect for people who volunteer because some of those people do things that are not within their job description, and they don’t get paid anything for it, but they feel that they recieve payment for what they do when they help someone. So. now I have learned to not always look for monetary gifts when I help someone or do something for someone who is less frotunate than I am because as a christian and as an American citizen I have a duty to help those who are in need. I do feel that I have improved the world because the goal was to help as many people as possible and hopefully the people that I help will have the same compassion as I did to further help themselves and someone else. So though I have not exceeded the capacity of individuals that I would like to have helped I do feel that what I have instilled in those individuals will be incentive for them to help some one else or just help themselves. This project was a bit strenuous and time consuming but I enjoyed it because it made me a better person and I put forth a lot of effort to do something worth while for some one else with out recieving a gift or anythignfor it. I also feel that this experience is something that I wil;l take with me for the rest of my life because it was something positive that I got out of my stay here in New Orleans, and this experience also allowed me to learn of so many things that New Orleans has to offer that I didn’t know even existed.

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Write a reflective blog seriously evaluating your project. Do you think you improved the world? To what extent? What are your future plans for this project?I do not really have a lot to say about my project but the fact that I did it for all the AIDS victims in South Africa and I hope I could have been able to have done more not just here in the US but for my fellow South Africans. One cannot just step into the scene and be successful, one has to take it one small step at a time one must start somewhere it does not matter how small those steps are. Nobody knows that one day those small steps will turn into something great big steps one day and benefit a lot of people because the project that I am doing is never ending I just hope that I have enough strength in me to take it the whole way and maybe one day I will be able to establish a world wide organization. To be totally honest I could have done better in my project, although I really tried. My mother used to tell me that trying your best is not good enough; you should always do your best. So in a way I have this feeling inside that I cannot shake that I could have done better. I do not know maybe there is something I could have done to try and help the situation of HIV/AIDS in South Africa. I could have even had pamphlets to hand out to people after I had talked to them. In my first plan I took that into consideration but all did not go according to plan. I had called my mother back home in South Africa and asked her if she could please send me some of her pamphlets it is a matter of an emergency and I even e-mailed her reminding her every week. Also with the pamphlets people could read them and maybe grasp one little bit of information. Even though some of them were going to throw the pamphlets in the trash can at least there were going to be some who were going to keep them rather than talking to someone and after you finish talking by the time the person turns a corner the person has already forgotten about what he or she was told.

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