this just in

"blindness separates us from things, but deafness separates us from people"

-helen keller-

remember a few months ago when i posted i'd be going to peru

to do humanitarian work?

well, plans changed a bit and my classmates and i decided to do our humanitarian trip with starkey (a hearing aid company) because they have an established humanitarian mission program that travels all over the world.  the only downside... we wouldn't know when we were going, where we were going, or how much time we'd know in advance before we'd have to leave. 

i was excited about the opportunity but i was worried that i wouldn't be able to go with laura and spencer's weddings coming up.

friday night i got a phone call from our student advisor saying she heard from the company and they were offering to bring all of us along to do a mission in toluca, mexico (right outside of mexico city).

here's the catch... they wanted us to leave friday... like this upcoming friday... and they wanted to know who was in within like 12 hours so they could book our flights.

it is an opportunity we didn't want to pass up so together we made the decision to go for it- and the email/calling tree started. 

there were 12 of us that were able to commit to going, so we booked it.

i am super excited to go- i guess we'll be fitting over 7,000 hearing aids in a week's time.

this is an opportunity that doesn't come available to students often, and i feel blessed and excited to be able to be a part of it.

here's a link to what they did in toluca last year... watch the video- it's seriously amazing and even made me tear up a bit!

http://www.starkeyhearingfoundation.org/hearing-mission.php?id=43

mexico.... here we come!