The document discusses the author's experience volunteering with Habitat for Humanity in Pattaya, Thailand over a weekend during their sophomore year of high school. The author felt a great sense of accomplishment and felt really good about helping people who didn't have homes to build better lives. While the trip was only a weekend, the emotional experience of helping others in this hands-on way was very rewarding and influenced the author more than other ways of knowing like reason, perception or language. The author chose to analyze this experience through the lens of emotion.