Leaving a Mark

There is nothing much to talk about our 36 hrs bus ride down to Florida because most people just slept the whole way, including professors showing that mid-semester exams got the best of most of us. It was however a good thing that we got this rest because we needed all this energy for our first day on the habitat work site in Dade City.


Today started out promising after we had devotion titled “leaving a mark”. I say promising because what we exactly did today at the Habitat ground was leave an 18 inches deep, 7 inches wide mark around a 2 acres garden. As we left our camp, we had no idea about what we will be asked to do.

Once we got there we were immediately split into 3 groups, showing the need for volunteers. One group went to an off-site to help finish the roof of a house, another group was asked to paint the interior of a house on-site while my group was asked to dig a trench around a habitat community garden.


At the end of the afternoon, our site directors were very pleased with what we had accomplished because we did twice the work they expected from girls (my group had about 10 girls). For most of us, we didn’t think that we could do this kind of job, but with the determination and passion that we had we definitely left a mark today.


The message today is not about girl power, it is more about recognizing that as we go about our normal business every day, we encounter people and we leave our mark with them. It can be either a positive one or a negative one. It can be life changing if we live with this awareness.

-Peace (Florida)