Becca Shim s Story I spent 5 years at Brigham Young University completing my undergraduate degree in Youth Leadership with a minor in International Development. From that alone, anyone could conclude that I like kids, I like to play, and I like to play with poor kids. When I found out about my internship with the Engage Now Foundation, I was more than excited to go. I d been wanting to go to Africa for a long time and I finally had the opportunity to go to what I considered the granddaddy of all African countries, Ethiopia. I was prepared for a lot of things. I had studied and felt I had a good grasp on development theories, leadership and Ethiopia in a nutshell. I had all the camping equipment you could possibly fit into the 70-lb weight limit. I had water purification tablets. I had a honking first aid kit and I even knew how to use it. I d gotten every vaccination under the sun. I packed clothes, journals, field guides, and (let s not forget) about 40 discs. My assignment was to go to Ethiopia for the summer with one other intern, assess some of the programs that were already in operation in some of the villages in the Rift Valley area, research the demography, feel out the possibility of implementing new programs, and execute some sort of personal pet project involving my passion for playing with poor kids. After the first week, my fellow intern realized that he couldn t spend a whole summer away from his girlfriend and daily showers and packed up and left without much notice. I was left there as a single foreign female to fend for my self (that was a lot of alliteration). I didn t know the language (there were actually several that were relevant). I didn t know my way around. I pretty much didn t know anything. I was able to meet up with some contacts who showed me the ropes as much as I could handle and work went slowly and tediously forward. At least, I d like to think of it as going forward although many times it felt contrary. While I was prepared for all the things I thought I would be doing, I wasn t prepared for all that actually happened. Having your plans completely and utterly fall through day after day is enough to give you worms. On top of that I spent the whole summer dirty, throwing up, hamburgerless, alone, threatened, robbed, homeless, grabbed, going to the bathroom in ziplock bags, lost and just in an overall stinky state of affairs. During my last month there, I started to wonder what kind of a difference I d actually made and just thinking about it made me just slightly depressed and sick to my stomach. Of course that could have been the street food I bought for lunch everyday. I did meet amazing people. I did experience amazing things and I did learn a lot, but from a purely selfish standpoint I wanted to leave Ethiopia feeling that I had left something good behind. My last week in Ethiopia was the week I planned for my pet project. This was my time. The whole summer, although it had been incredible, had also been miserable in a lot of ways. For this last week I had arranged with the schools of 3 different villages to have youth representatives come to a week-long day camp.
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