Have a two year old orphan girl named Sarah trace your hands continually for fifteen minutes and try not to let the exprience break your heart. Play tic-tac-toe with five year old twins whose mother is incapable of taking care of them and try not to cry. Listen to a young man tell you about how in his religion he prays five times a day and that it is Allah who provides. Do these things and try to live a normal life afterwards. If you are human you will find yourself incapable; reducded to tears and left contemplating at night. I started my volunteering at Jamiyah Children's Home...what we would call an orphanage. Children start at the age of 2 and go up to 18--with some children residing in the home for over eight years. This is their home and they share it with about 50 other children and many helpers that come in go. Mike and I share this site and I know it has effected both of us in the same way. We are both moved by the exprience and the children. A pink eye epidemic has broken out at the home and so we have been unable to return...breaking our promise to the children that we would return the next day, Mike pinky swore them of our return. Is a child expected to understand something like that? It breaks my heart to break promises to them...i owe them five hundred games of tic-tac-toe.
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Sounds like you've already experienced quite a bit. Hope you're having fun and soaking up lots of sun on the beach. I miss you so much. I haven't killed the plants yet. Tell Mike I said "Hi."
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