This is Home…?
When I first left TN for Impact, I was positive for homesickness. Desperately so. I longed for my family, for the familiar places, even for the grocery stores I knew. I wanted to go home. Yet the longer I stayed in Pine Mountain, the more I started to refer to this place as “home.” The dorms…
4 Tips to Give Better Feedback
Whether you are a manager of people or are being asked by someone to help evaluate an idea, one of the best and most practical skills you can develop is being able to deliver good feedback. Being able to do this is ultimately an act of being proactive in helping someone head off a potential…
Finding God In Every Culture and Situation
I came into this trip blind to understanding the Brazilian culture. I was unintentionally closed off to the extreme change of going from American culture to Brazilian culture. I found it hard to grasp onto how relationships work, I did not understand language, and I even found it hard to adjust to the hot, humid, wet weather. During this time, I…
