Category — Katherine

Katherine is a student in the International Baccalaureate program for Sciences. She loves to dance and currently takes lessons in Ballet-Jazz and Hip-Hop. She also likes to travel, and she is passionate about helping people in need. She is an ambitious, loyal and open-minded person who has a great teamwork ethic and loves diversity around her: “People bring different things to the table and you have to adapt to how everyone works, you have to incorporate everyone’s thoughts in order to come out with something good”.

Furthermore, Katherine loves that this study trip combines raising awareness about the importance of education as well as travelling, which is one of the reasons she decided to get involved. She feels privileged to be able to go to Malawi and help the people in that country therefore, she is completely ready for the challenges that lie ahead and prepared to experience the Malawian way of living: “I think people are more open-minded when they see different cultures, they get to understand others better, they get to appreciate more of what they have, and it opens up people’s eyes, it helps them to become better persons”.

In addition, she hopes this experience will help broaden her horizons and change her outlook on life. Katherine also hopes it will have an impact in the College to make students more aware of what is going on in the world perhaps then, some will be inspired to get more involved. Lastly, her personal contribution to this experience lies in the unique way she wishes to connect with the people of Malawi; through dance. “To me, dance is a way of communication…just to go there and dance, it has no boundaries, everyone can just dance and have a good time; it would be the language we would communicate in”.

To see more pictures of Katherine, click on the link below:

http://www.vaniercollege.qc.ca/international-education/projects/vefa/malawi/katherine/index.html