Thursday, March 20, 2014

A New Beginning

This will be our last post, as Jason and I have ended our Peace Corps service after seven months of living and working in Tanzania.  Tanzania presented many challenges for us, all of which we gladly faced, eager to nurture young minds and enact changes at our university.  There was one challenge that proved too difficult to face in country.  In February I (Heather) suffered from a severe panic attack while riding home from an excursion to a local coffee lodge.  We were determined to seek counseling in Tanzania for my increasing anxiety after we visited the USA and returned back home to Mbeya.  This was not meant to be, as I suffered from another panic attack while boarding our flight home to Tanzania.

While our Peace Corps service has ended, our passion for development and helping the least of these has not.  We learned much about ourselves and a different culture-we gained a new perspective and widened our world view.  We are not the same people who left the USA seven months ago.  While we went to Tanzania to create positive change, we find ourselves to be the most changed from our experiences.  Coming back to the USA is not an ending; it is a new beginning.

Love,
Heather and Jason

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