Four weeks from today..

Four weeks from today, mom and I will be on our way to Haiti! I cannot wait to go back. Now that I'm back in school, I'm having a hard time because I feel like what I'm learning is not really important. For instance, I'm taking a developmental psychology class, and we had to read these two 30-page articles on whether half-day or full-day kindergarten is better. Psychologists have done all this extensive research on it, controlling for all these different variables, and then one article says half-day is better and one says that full-day is better. I don't know, it's just hard for me to see that as important when are there are so many children in Haiti who can't even go to school. And when they do, there's hundreds of them in one-room school houses. For developmental psych, I have to conduct an observational study on how preschool children show affection. It seems silly to me to spend my time doing studies on such insignificant things when there's so much else to be done in countries like Haiti.


I know that there are important things that I'm learning about the development of kids that will be useful to me in the future to help children. I'm trying to see it this way! I know that this is where I need to be right now, finishing my degree, and I'm thankful that I will be done in 8 months! Hallelujah. And I'm so, so blessed to be going to Haiti in 4 weeks!