I have been given the opportunity for the journey of a lifetime - to volunteer in orphanages of Southeast Asia. While traveling and volunteering in Nepal and Thailand, I hope to contribute significant research to the field of children's human rights. The children of these countries suffer unbearable realities of human rights violations through child labor, bonded slavery, and sexual exploitation. As work for my graduate thesis, I am researching the organizations that exist to return these unfortunate children to their childhood.

Friday, July 18, 2008

Fun facts continued!

9) There is no need for seatbelts on the micro because everyone is smashed into the bus like sardines.
10) When washing clothes, the best replacement for the spin cycle is stomping on your clothes in the soapy water.
11) Do not be startled by loud booming sounds, as they could be explosions of any kind - a tire blowng out, or a bomb!
12) Do not leave home without your surgical mask - it helps lessen the sting of the aromas of sewage and piles of garbage.
13) When in doubt, smile and laugh!
14) Toilet references are not #1 or #2, but instead short toilet and long toilet. No matter the age, a child and/or teenager will openly explain which will be happening, when asking to be excused from the room.
15) Cows, goats, dogs, chickens, and ducks have the right of way, not pedestrians.
16) Umbrellas are useless in a monsoon downpour.
17) Horns do not really mean get out of the way, but rather, ready or not here I come!
18) We are fortunate at AmaGhar to have a "neighborhood choir." Every night, promptly at 9, the frogs begin croaking, then the birds, ducks, chickens, and crickets chime in. The dogs start barking one by one, but then erupt into what sounds like hundreds. Our neighbor is friendly enough to chime in with about a half hour of hocking mucous outside the window. Not to be forgotten are the cows and goats, trying their best to be heard above the rest of the choir. Just in case we missed the nights' festivities and sweet melodies, the choir always provides an encore every morning, promptly at 5am. On special occassions, our neighbor not only hocks, but vomits as well.

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