explore families around the world

I want to participate in level 5 -(These postings will relate an experience, tell why it is related to professional development and how it impacted you as an individually as a professional.)

I made a couple of trips to Africa this summer. I stayed in a home of a family in Malawi. I hitch hiked from Malawi to Mozambique and then on to Zambia ending my first trip with a flight back to Malawi rather than hitch hiking. I was there 21 days.

My second trip was to Johannesburg, South Africa for seven days. These experiences have greatly impacted my life and made me more appreciative of my family and friends here in America and our way of life.

As a professional it has changed my perspective. I am now driven to travel, get more education, and see more of the world and the way families function.

This is got to be one of the most interesting classes I have ever taken in my life; this is because I am a international traveler and I now have an instructor with personal experience, love for the family unit and teach from the heart.

Needles to say, I have had instructors who's voice tone would break glass and did not know the information as well as he/she should have, not to mention their delivery. All of my children are adults and my wife and I have been married for 30 years and we have 2 grand children; this means a lot for me to have a good instructor.