Becoming a part of the Beyond Borders Experience

Now that I have explained how uncomfortable it is for me to blog, I will attempt to move onto something more personal and exciting! 

As a fourth year student majoring in Sexuality Marriage and Family Studies, with a minor in Peace and Conflict Studies, while also completing a Social Work Diploma; it is quite evident through the academic path that I have chosen for myself that I love people and what people have to offer to one another as well as the world around them. It is with this love for people that along with my professional aspirations to work with individuals on a day-to-day basis, it is a growing passion of mine to be involved in international humanitarian work; which is what lead me to the Beyond Borders Program before I was even a student at the University of Waterloo.

Prior to entering into university, in my final year of high school I decided that I would apply to be apart of a humanitarian mission to Africa with Habitat for Humanity, and while I was preparing for this process it was during a tour of the university that I first heard about the Beyond Borders Program. It was as though the university was giving me a sign saying “This is where you need to be!” I followed the sign and accepted Waterloo. But I quickly found out that that sign was not enough. Life continued to happen, leading me further and further away from my opportunity to be a part of the Beyond Borders experience... and then fourth year came and it was my last chance to apply, there was not going to be another after this... and to my surprise, after much reflection and discussion, it was finally my opportunity to be a part of something I had specifically chosen the university for... This was the beginning of my Beyond Borders experience!!