I have always wanted to travel and experience cultures other than my own. I love to learn about the way other people live. My sophomore year in college I spent a semester abroad so I lived in South Africa for five months working with the community and taking sociology classes as well, which allows me to learn even more about the cultures I was working with. I was really inspired by community engagement class, it allowed me to work in a battered women’s shelter and with kids whose parents had died from the AIDS epidemic. This was only a few years post apartheid, so I was able to learn a lot about the culture and experience the disparity between a region like South Africa and the US.