During fitness class, Rosie falls and scrapes her knee. Crying, she walks over to sit with me on the sidelines so I can comfort her and then bandage up her knee. As I am cleaning the cut, another one of the girls, Nellymar, walks over to Rosie, sits down next to her, and puts her arm around her. Just as I am about to tell Nelly that she should rejoin the class, Nelly says, "Rosie, don't worry because your knee is bleeding. You don't have to cry. You're you, and you're beautiful, and that's all that matters."
Couldn't have said it better myself.
I am a rising junior at Boston College, spending my summer in Boston working at the B-SAFE summer camp at Saint Stephen's Parish in the South End of Boston. Since this is the first time I have spent part of my summer away from home, I decided that keeping a blog would be the best way to remember my experience, as well as give my family and friends at home insight into my life here in Beantown. Enjoy!
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