Jeff Tech Europe group 2018

My new phone made this video for me so I thought I would save it and share it.

Aaron Lines showed some of us on the trip an app called Photo Circle. It is a place you can share your trip pictures. Please consider downloading the app and sharing your pictures. A handful of us have done so. You may text me as you attempt to download it and I can give you the access code you will need to join our circle.

I wish I had been more rested and we hadn't gotten back so late so that the thought to gather in our circle to say one final departing word would have popped into my head before now, but sadly, it did not. So FB will have to do. As I reflect on our 14 days together, many thoughts enter my mind. The most important being this--I truly hope that you had fun on this trip. Now, that does not mean that you were happy every minute of it. It is okay that there were parts of it you di...d not love or maybe even like. And those parts could certainly consist of people, places and things. Nothing you do in this life will ever be perfect. It is how you handle those imperfections that help you become a better person. Do not complain, but use the good and the bad to your advantage. What you enjoyed and disliked are equally important on these trips because both help you grow and discover things about the world around you, but also about yourself. Both are also equally important. It was nice to be able to watch you change over the past two weeks. Now the question is, what will you do with what you achieved in those 14 days? Use it. Keep growing and travelling. Each experience will be different--both good and bad, but you will take something away with you each time. Having a nice home and cars and all those things is great, but it is the memories you make with the people around you that will sustain you throughout your life. Reflect and keep moving. I hope you will all adopt OUR Grandma Barbie's motto to, "just keep putting one foot in front of the other." I also hope that you came home with a greater appreciation of this great country of ours. Sometimes it takes seeing that things can always be worse to appreciate what you have. Thank you for the opportunity to see the world with all of you. Have a fantastic rest of your summer. XOXO! See more

Jeff Tech 2:30AM.

We are on the plane!