People that know me well continue to ask me if I am leaving the country over this Christmas break from school. I had the privilege of spending last New Year’s in the jungles of Peru with a whole lot of beautiful boys, but this year getting back to school on January 2nd will not allow a return to Peru. I realized that I really only blog when I return from an overseas adventure, which happens to exclude my everyday adventure that I love so dearly. So, here’s a quick glimpse, at My Everyday Africa!!!
But it’s also far from a first class vacation
It’s a room like many others all across the land
On behalf of the 80 pairs of eyes that look to me
To set the tone for what kind of day it will be
They need a whole lot more than to just learn to read
Everyday they come in with new and fresh need
The need for someone to listen, encourage, and desperately believe
Someone to guarantee it’s possible for them to achieve
Someone to fight the battles they don’t yet comprehend
Someone to stand by their side and their innocence defend
It’s definitely not Africa, it’s the U.S. of A.
It’s not a mountaintop moment; it’s the grind of everyday
It’s not poked out little bellies, or faces swarmed with flies
But within these four walls, the same injustice still lies
So with teammates and coworkers who are heroes in my eyes
We suit up and go to battle against all of the lies
The lies that have filled each and every little one’s head
We substitute with confidence and pronounce the lies dead
We teach them to think, over and over again
We live for the light bulb moment to accompany the grin
So although this Christmas, Bama’s as far as I’ll go
A glimpse of My Everyday Africa I wanted to show
