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Midterms and India pics

A man with leprosy, picture taken on my last visit to India with Rising Star Outreach

This semester has flown! I cannot believe we're halfway done.  I am learning so much and enjoying myself immensely.  I am making changes because of this one class.  It is helping me to begin to draw an outline of what my life could be in a couple of years.  For fun, I'm also going to share some pics from my last trip to India and I'm excited because I just booked my flight to go see my "kids" in India this coming February. 

Darling Student in his uniform at the Rising Star Outreach campus

This past weekend Phil and I traveled to Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire for a board meeting for Rising Star Outreach.  Rising Star provides help to leprosy affected individuals and their families in southern India through a variety of methods.  My husband has been on the board for the past six years. It was a very thought provoking weekend. Previous board meetings, I have either not attended or just popped in to say a quick hello, viewing myself as just the wife (not that there is anything wrong that).  This gathering was different for two reasons.  First,  I had spent a month in India this past January with other women from the Rising Star board and took lots of promotional pictures and was able to give better feedback.   The second and more valuable reason was this class is giving me different lenses to see the world with.  Because of what I have been learning these past few weeks, I took the opportunity to do some mentor interviews with people who serve on the board.  My husband and I also took time on this trip to review what I have been learning in class and talk more specifically about my education goals and opportunities.

This class has been a great reminder of truths and tools that I have known but not picked up for awhile.  I love our family goals and these have been priority and will remain so.  However, I had not taken time to truly give myself a new roadmap now that my children do not require all of my time.  I was surrounded this weekend by incredible women who do incredible things.  It was wonderful to talk to them about next stages and think about what I need to do to be prepared.  

This year we also worked with Days for Girls International






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