My
Inequitable Fulfillment
By no action of my own, I was born considerably more fortunate than a great majority of my contemporaries. As a result, I have always felt an obligation towards the less fortunate—particularly the poor of my country. As a pre-teenager, I developed an interest and compassion for the people amongst whom I lived daily. It was these same feelings, along with my religious upbringing and spiritual beliefs, that inspired me earlier this year to teach at the Restoration Christian School.
In giving back to the wider Jamaican community, my contribution is my talent at public speaking, teaching mathematics and science. I felt the most self-satisfying area I could carry this out was Trench Town, the archetype of urban Jamaican poverty and violence and one-time stomping ground of many Jamaican cultural greats.
These few months teaching have already been, as I expected, an unending source of profound learning experience. Volunteering here has truly granted me inequitable fulfillment. As a recent high school graduate, I felt that I would benefit from a year’s matriculation between high school and college so I deferred my acceptance to Cornell University until the Fall of 2003.
Though I am presently unsure of what I want to do for a career, I teach science and math at the CXC Level here, and practice in these arrears should definitely help me along whatever that future holds.
