| Believe it or not, the small bathroom represented in both pictures is a place
near and dear to my heart. Each summer throughout high school I attended UMARMY, a week-long mission trip. The
city and work sites changed from year to year, but this bathroom will always be my most memorable site, and it
reminds me of all the connotations I associate with each UMARMY, regardless of location. As you can see from the before
picture on the left, all of us kids (from well-off families and backgrounds) were often sent to sites that were
very different, even appalling in some cases, from what we were used to seeing in our every-day lives. This bathroom,
in particular was the worst case I had every been sent to work on, and it upset me to think that so many people live
with such poverty that forces them to live in situations like this one. Of all the places I've been to, UMARMY was the
one that opened my eyes the most to a bigger world. I was taken away from so many comforts and forced to see so many
discomforts each week I went. This place pushed the limits of my comfort zone, my 'familiar shores', the most.
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