Courage

Hi there! How are you doing? This week in NYC has been such a productive week; we have worked a lot in the different offices and also at the Life-house. Little by little, we are learning how to live with lot of people in just one house. It is amazing how we do to share our time with each other. Apart of learning from the girls who come to the offices, we also learn from the other interns living and sharing with them every minute of the day in the Life-house or going for sightseeing. 

I would like to tell all of you one of the things that has impressed me the most. It is the story of one of my clients. This is a girl who is seventeen years old and she was the second time she was pregnant. The first time she was pregnant was when she was fifteen and she decided to keep the baby instead of going for an abortion or giving for adoption. She came to the office (with her cute little daughter) because she was afraid with her second pregnancy, she didn´t want to go for an abortion because she realized that her little daughter was the best thing she had in this moment (and so the new baby could be another “best thing” in her life) but at the same time she was worried because she was so young and she wanted to continue with the college. 

After talking for a while, studying all the risks that an abortion can have she decided that she was going to think carefully what she could do with her studies because she wanted to keep her new baby. I think this a clear example of courage that can teach us how we have to act in such difficult situation because everything in this world has a solution, we just have to be braves!!