Trip reveals a tale of two cultures - Junior Rebecca Shields' summer in Ghana and Ukraine helped change her life and her perspectives
Camus' idea that "travel, which is like a greater and graver science, brings us back to ourselves" captures my motivation for embarking on a trip across the world to Ghana and Ukraine. As a member of the International Jewish College Corps, sponsored by the American Jewish World Service, I lived in a rural community in Ghana for nearly five weeks, followed by a three-week program working with a reemerging Jewish community in the Ukraine. My experiences in both countries were extremely different, but forced me to challenge myself in ways I never thought possible.