In the summer of 2009, with the help of a scholarship from Leave Your Mark, I traveled to Argentina for two months. While there, I worked in the mornings at a dentist’s clinic in the local hospital and worked in the afternoons at a horse ranch specializing in equine therapy to rehabilitate children with physical or emotional disabilities. This whole trip was incredible because of the people I met, worked with, and lived with. These people and these experiences served to open my eyes to just how big God’s world is and just how amazing He is to have created such a diverse and wonderful place. And what’s more- He is able to love us all fully and completely! My way of thinking was completely changed by this trip. Not only that, but my career path was altered as well. I always knew I would like to work in the health sciences, but this trip gave me the desire to serve as a dentist to the physically and emotionally handicapped. I am eternally grateful to Leave Your Mark for making this trip possible!

My trip to Ecuador was one of the most amazing experiences of my life. Although our original plans did not work out, we found ourselves working in a low income community in the city of Guayaquil. While we were there we spent 10 weeks pouring into the people of the neighborhood, as well as helping restore a church that had opened up just a few months before our arrival. Most of our time was spent with a group of children of about 10. The children ranged from ages 6 to 11. These kids were known as, “the street kids” and were looked down upon by the rest of the community. Our mission was to simply love on these kids in the simplest of ways. By providing snacks for them daily and just playing games and having fun with them, a true bond was formed between us.

The effect these kids had on me was unreal. Almost a year later I think about this group of kids daily. I learned so much from them about life and appreciating the simple things. I am hoping that one day I will have the opportunity to return to this community where I called home for a summer.

As for now, I am about to graduate from Florida State University and am looking forward to the future. Two of my friends will be returning to Ecuador this summer to follow up on the people we became family with.

Shortly after Robbie’s Funeral, Anna and Larry come to Robbie’s lower-Manhattan loft as Burton and Pale join them. In the face of their shared tragedy, the quartet attempts to make sense of their lives and reconsider their own identities and relationships.

Shakespeare’s earliest and often regarded as his greatest tragedy. Returning to Rome from a war against the Goths, the general Titus Andronicus brings with him the queen Tamora and her three sons as prisoners of war. Titus’ sacrifice of Tamora’s eldest son to appease the ghosts of his 21 dead sons, and his decision to refuse to accept the title of emperor, initiates a terrible cycle of mutilation, rape and murder, At the centre of the nightmare moves the self-delighting Aaron. Spectacularly, even grotesquely violent and daringly experimental, Titus was the smash hit of Shakepeare’s early career, and is written with a ghoulish energy he was never to repeat elsewhere. The play is by far Shakespeare’s bloodiest work.

Ripped from the headlines of  The Weekly World News, Bat Boy: The Musical is a classic love story with a serious bite. This delicious twist on the modern day musical comedy tells the amazing story of a strange boy with pointy ears, his struggle to find a place in a world that shuns him, and the love that can create both miracles and madness.

Pulitzer Prize and Tony winner for Best Play, I am my Own Wife is the hilariously written and hauntingly complex true tale of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, a German transvestite who successfully outwitted not only the Nazis and Communists, but could also spot a priceless antique at 100 yards.

A Tony award winner for best play, this comedy, which raises questions about art and friendship, concerns three long-time friends, Serge, Marc, and Yvan. Serge, indulging his penchant for modern art, buys a large, expensive, completely white painting. Marc is horrified, and their relationship suffers considerable strain as a result of their differing opinions about what constitutes “art”. Yvan, caught in the middle of the conflict, tries to please and mollify both of them.