A few thoughts after a week back in the USA
As I have reflected on the trip shared with our students and partners, I feel a sense of loss that is likely inevitable: it’s done; could we have done more, done it better? I miss the people we have connected with in a profound way, bound by our common work and experiences. They may not believe it, but I really miss my students (I include here my LC students)!
Yet, I also feel a sense of pride in the effort and the undeniable good work we accomplished together with the people of St. Lucia in a small but significant corner of this vast globe. No one could make such a trip with an open heart and mind and not be changed by it. And no one can view the photos on this site and miss the mutual joy created in a world that needs it sorely. Our students and faculty represented a different face to St. Lucians than the one that has predominated of late (or the one that has predominated historically in the Caribbean, one might easily argue).
Finally I feel a great debt of thanks to all those that made this project possible, including decisions makers at both colleges. This is the way to do study abroad.
