When I go to South Africa every year, I am surrounded by a flurry of statistics. AIDs rates, death rates, teen pregnancy rates, etc. The first summer I went, I was so overwhelmed by them. When I would look at someone we passed on the dirt road I would literally imagine numbers and percents floating above their heads. For a 13 year old, that can be painful. Last summer when we went back, we knew everybody and stayed in the same place and the villagers seemed more like people with names instead of a generalization.

Bing a teenager, and co-founding a non-profit, go together strangely. On one hand, I love being this young, it gives me a chance to widen my world views, and my freinds support me. But the flip side of that is many of my peers dont understand what I'm doing it, and even what my non-profit is! I am seen as the overachiever, business-woman-at-15 girl to many of them. I started a blog called, 15 Year Old Entrepreneur, and it's purpose is to let people into my head, and let them know how things really work!

Times like the holidays always make me really appreciate Aung San Suu Kyi. She is such an amazing person, so strong, and brave. As it is said in the U2 song, Walk On, written about Aung San Kyi, "You're packing your suitcase for a place none of us has been. A place that has to be believed to be seen." She has been fighting for decades for freedom, justice and peace, under the ever watchful eye of the military government.