We first started with class where we discusses our strengths and how they play into our personality. Before we came to Ecuador we took a strengths assessment which ranked our top five strengths. In class today we discussed what all the strengths meant and how we can utilize them in our professional lives and our future. My top five strengths are:
- Developer: I see potential in others and strive to help them reach their goals.
- Discipline: I plan, organize, and love having a routine.
- Empathy: I see the world through other peoples shoes and hear their unvoiced questions
- Positivity: I am quick to smile, my enthusiasm is contagious, and I celebrate achievements
- Includer: I love making people a part of the group and I am an instinctively including person
It was amazing to be able to sit in a room with 19 other strong personalities and realize how individual we all are, and how strong we are. I was so impressed by everyone I was surrounded with and how different we all were. We all can bring so much to the table and this program helped us all realize that we can take risks and we can continue to pursue the dreams we have all had for years.
After classes I had the incredible opportunity to visit the museum of Oswaldo Guayasamin. He was a painter and sculptor in Quito who create various pieces of art work that showcased the pain and suffering that the indigenous people felt as they developed their communities. I have never been so entranced by a painter before. I knew artwork could evoke emotion, but I had no clue that it would leave such an impression on me. Guayasamin's work will be forever embedded in my heart.
I have never been a part of a program that has caused me to think and perceive things that way I do when I am here with GlobalLEAD. Last summer at Lines I was challenged mentally and physically, but here in Ecuador it is entirely another level. There is nothing I would rather be doing than absorbing all that I can here in Ecuador.
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