I hope I’m not getting in over my head with this El Salvador mission trip thing. I certainly don’t want to be compelled to do this year after year (it gets pretty expensive) and I just don’t have that much vacation time. I know its pretty fickle to be talking about vacation time when people are starving over there.
Anyways I’m sorta wondering what is my role in all of this. I mean I can sorta see why you would need skilled workers like dentists and doctors. However the rest of us…the former Nortel data analyst….the college student….the Walgreens worker….are we really needed? I mean supposedly there’s a translator within arms reach of all of us. Are all of these extra hands needed or are we just getting in the way? Seems like we could streamline the trip by putting translators around doing stuff.
I know I’m just speaking off the top of my head. Having never been to Central America I am totally ignorant of what goes on there. Maybe the crowds are so overwhelming that they actually need 30 of us and 10 translators or however many there are…. I don’t know. I just hope I don’t get glassy eyed and feel compelled to go back year after year. I already do 2 church camps every summer. And I don’t want another thing on my list to do.
I probably need to put together a list of things I need to get/do before the trip. Maybe I’ll post it here for archive purposes…. I already know that I need an air matress. Maybe a visit to Goodwill is in order. They say don’t take anything you’d feel bad loosing. And you end up giving away clothes to the natives since they have nothing. Kevin Bass wants me to take a Creative Graphics hat for the locals. Advertising his business even in El Salvador.
And I was able to raise all of the money required for this trip.