Awesome day at the Amy Biehl Golf Outing!

Today, instead of working in the township schools, the three of us who are working for Amy Biehl Foundation went to the Mowbray golf course to work the Amy Biehl Golf Day (Golf Outing as I would call it). At first I was definitely bummed when they told us we had to miss our literacy classes and wouldn’t be seeing our students today. I was also less than thrilled to go work on the “corporate” side of things. I would much rather be in the schools with the children that at a golf course with very important people. However, it turned out to be such a fantastic day, and when our ride showed up at 4pm, none of us wanted to leave!!

Not only is everyone at Amy Biehl, along with the CEO, Kevin, absolutely fantastic and fun people, but the golfers were so upbeat and fun as well! Though we unfortunately couldn’t stay for the end or for the raffle prizes and dinner tonight, we had such a great day from 9 to 4, I barely realized that much time had passed! Overall it was a really great day with positive, uplifting people who were all there for one cause, which I can say from first hand experience is one of the most worthwhile causes I have ever been a part of.

Perhaps one of the most interesting folks we met was a photographer named Filip who is traveling the world, photographing groups of children spelling out every letter of the alphabet.  Each letter will be taken in a different country, and once the whole alphabet is complete, he will sell the photographs to companies to use as their marketing, and all the proceeds of the photos will go directly to children’s charities across the globe. Perhaps I explained that poorly, but the point is that this guy and his girlfriend are on this amazing journey and doing some really amazing work!! The photograph of the first letter is going to be shot in March in Cape Town, and we were invited to help organize the children on the beach that day, so hopefully that works out!! It would be so amazing to be part of!

(If you’re interested or want a better description, visit peaceloveandphotography.tv)

Every single day here I am blessed with brand new eye opening and perspective shifting experiences and I could not be more grateful for them.  It seems that just when I start to think I have begun to get the most out of my experience here, I get even more. At our reflection tonight we met an amazing and inspiring woman, whom I will have to write much more about later, but we each told her “why we were here”. Of course we all know why we came to South Africa. However, I have already started to realize that the reason I am here is far greater and beyond the reasons that I came and what I am getting is so much more than I ever expected and more than I could possibly identify or put into words at this stage.