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It's true, the sayings about you never knowing what you have until it's gone or what a person has been through until you walk a mile in his shoes. I had the opportunity to travel abroad with a group of students from my university and work with Habitat for Humanity to help build three different houses for families in need. The landscape of the country had breath-taking beauty with it's beautiful beaches and mountains that scraped the skys. But, the poverty is unreal and heart-breaking.

  “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.” ―  Mark Twain ,  The Innocents Abroad/Roughing It I had the opportunity to go on a service trip with my university and work with Habitat for Humanity. Leadership comes to those who experience the way others live and implement those newly learned experiences into our every day lives.  I'll tell you all about my experience soon. Ashley