Moving and Reflecting
The following post was written by Global Gap Year Fellow Kyra Koons.
The first half of my gap year was spent at home in Raleigh, NC, and my first placement was around 6 minutes driving distance from my house at the Habitat for Humanity Raleigh ReStore. I had driven by the ReStore hundreds of times and originally wondered if my work with them would feel too familiar, but I faced new challenges that brought excitement and mystery to each day. My official title was “independent project intern,” but I spent a lot of time working with the volunteer coordinator at the ReStore, Anne, to create plans to build a mission wall. During the brainstorming phase, we floated different options for its design, but the general idea for the wall was to have a set of doors at the front of the ReStore to demonstrate the relationship between shoppers’ dollars spent […]