Expectations... :)

**if you are about to study abroad, read this!!!**

Sooo... with every new experience one has some expectations- internal or external... some you are conscious of and some you are not.

"Emotions are signs you're dealing with unmet expectations." -Mark, USP director

Here is a chart of what the program desires this study abroad to be for us:

What USP is not about:              
1. emotionally gratifying experiences
2. helping Ugandans  
3. life-changing experiences
4. simple lessons packed in pretty packages  
5. tourism          
6. cynicism

What USP is about:
1. your reaction to experiences
2. helping American college students
3. one degree change
4. tension
5. pilgrimage
6. faith, hope, and love

Thoughts about that:
1. reactions to experiences teach us more about ourselves
2. I need help just as much as any other person
3. One degree change now leads to significant change in the future- bringing in some geometry here- think about angles :).
4. life is not simple. Tension and balance make up reality.
5. pilgrimage= humility, going with God and others :)
6. ....

with bright mornings and expectations in One who has the control :),
nicole