When I was nine years old I happened to borrow a movie from the library that was called Pay it Forward. If you’ve never seen it then A) You should, but B) to understand this blog post know that the premise of the movie is a social studies teacher giving an impossible assignment to change the world, and the 7th grader who actually did it. How said 7th grader changed the world was through a concept that has existed for centuries. In this movie 7th grader Trevor McKinney creates a model wherein he does 3 good deeds, and tells each recipient to pay it forward with 3 more good deeds, the multiplication of good deeds will eventually change the world for the better.

Like I said, I was nine when I watched the movie…. so perhaps I could be excused if after briefly looking around and wondering why nobody was actually paying it forward, I ended up forgetting about it and going back to my everyday life.

Now however, the concept has ceased to be simply an idea for me. It is real, and I have been the recipient of a very generous gift that has allowed me to go to Paris!!!!! In fact, I am leaving the Basque Country this very day!

To everyone who has been part of the chain leading up to this, I don’t know you all, but you all deserve my thanks. And never fear, the chain shall not stop here.