It’s almost a month now sice I came back from Africa and I have to say my life can’t go back to normal (meaning as it was before I went to Africa).Now I am back and every day I will wake up the same time, get ready, go to work, stay there until 5:30, come back home with a peaceful mind not to stress about all the above. After work, back at home and I will go straight to my laptop to watch my photos and videos from Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar.. . It does sound pathetic but I really enjoying doing that, it keeps reminding me how different every day was there as oppose to what it is now.
Last year I went to Costa Rica to volunteer and when I came back I had exactly the same feelings but they didn’t last as long. I went back quickly to the London life rythm. There, it was the first time I was volunteerting and it was only for a week so I didn’t realise as much the importance of what I was doing.
Nowdays I have heard from many people wanting to become volunteers. Some say it is partly because of the recession some others say that people have become more aware about the climate change, humanitarian issues and finally some others think is because of the globalisation.
In my opinion no matter what the reason is it’s great that this is happening. The sure thing is that volunteering always has good results and benefits from both sides. When a human beign decides independently to make a difference to the world, help to make it better, it also means that cares about the others and has decided to leave behind the classic pattern (job-career-money-house -family) that most people from big cities live in.
Here are some photos from my volunteering in Africa
http://www.flickr.com/groups/volunteeringkenya/
Love
Stella