Update from the group!

By Christin Wilson

No matter where you are there are a few things that don’t change no matter how far you go from home. If you can find those connections then home really is where the heart is…

*Kids are kids, we played, we danced, we sang.

*Although it is only our first day we have already been reminded, (while rolling down a hill, or playing a make shift skip it with a branch from a tree) that we were all children once. If we try hard enough then we will find that child that we once were, and I really think that is the first gift that the children of St. Vincent have given the Wesley group.

*First impressions last

*As soon as we saw natives the whole group yelled “Good morning” and waved and it had the same meaning that it would have if we were walking to class at school.

*The sunsets are beautiful

*As we set on the hill and looked out over Bequia and Kingston and it was breath taking, as it is when we are sitting on the beach at home.

*It’s hot when it’s hot

*We were all sitting on a van and I look at the little girl sitting next to me and she says “it’s really hot” and I was thinking “Yess” I’m glad the natives think it’s hot to.

There are differences that may give the Wesley group some trouble: like the heavy dialect, the van rides, the dance moves (that the Americans cannot keep us with), and the heat. Those are things that I think that we will learn how to live with in the ten days we are here. While we are constantly remembering that this is not our home, we are also constantly being reminding that this is their home that they are kindly sharing with us for ten days. Yes the life style is different and maybe the way they think and the way they dance.

But at the end of the day people are people and if we take the time to make that connection with the people around us then we have no reason to ever feel alone. People like food and good conversation, and when we mix those two things together then it’d be amazing that what we can learn from each other. We could always use a little more love and that’s why the 15 of us are here, to show God’s love in a way that others can feel it. The truth of the matter is that as soon as you give away that kind of love it comes back to you….