Let me just open with this; I am AWFUL with children... I like to stick to my guns, keep away from any form of social interaction, and generally just keep to myself for the most part. That isn't at all what happened today. And I couldn't be happier. The past few days the only static activity we've had, was going to Success Primary School, and hanging out with the first graders for half of the day. When I first heard we were going to work with kids, I was absolutely terrified. That was three days ago. Today I couldn't wait to get up early and head over to our first grade class. The radical change in my attitude was mainly due to a little girl named Kiara, who has a huge crush on me (I know, I know I'm a total stud). She invited me to sit next to her, color with her, and was just overall excited to spend any amount of time she could with me. When we went out to play games I gave her a piggy back ride and ran around with the other kids. Before long I had amassed a small army of first graders who all wanted piggy back rides. Obviously I wasn't able to give all of them piggy back rides at the same time (I have my limits) so they resorted to the next best thing... Hanging off of my legs and chasing me around. I was having so much fun with them. I've developed such a massive amount of love for these kids, even though if you had asked before I went on this trip, I would've said working with kids was near impossible for me. The next activity we had planned for today was a "prayer walk". I mean that should be easy for me right? We'll just walk around and pray for the town and not talk to anyone. That wasn't really the case. Turns out we actually had to walk around and TALK to people. Things like: Terrifying, Awful, Completely out of the question, Instantaneous death (well not really), were the first things to immediately pop into my mind. The first people we talked to didn't have much interest in us at all, but didn't say or do anything that really made me uncomfortable. The next person we talked to was a 21 year old kid at his cousin's car wash. He was the polar opposite of the last people we made an attempt of talking to. He was ready and willing to talk about christianity, theology, or just his everyday life. Although he didn't believe in a heaven or hell, he said he did believe in the trinity. He was really laid back and super interesting to swap ideas with, and in the end, he followed me on instagram. The next people we talked to ended up also being Christians and sat and talked to us about where we were from and what we were doing for twenty minutes or so. It had only felt like one or two minutes, because I was so locked into conversation with these people I had never met before in my entire life. Today I did things I never thought I'd be able to do, talked to people I'd never talk to, spend time being open to these people, which isn't something I'd be open to do before this trip. I'm still an introvert, no question about that... Jamaica has just completely changed my attitude about working with kids, and branching out and talking to people I wouldn't have even thought to in the past.