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.

Sunday, September 14, 2008

Reading with the boys

My favorite activity with the children is our reading groups. Because they are full of questions, we usually get distracted for a bit with stories about each other, and always a fit of giggles! I realized today though the difference between reading with my sisters and reading with my brothers…..spending time with teenage boys….In the midst of reading we went from the pronunciation of “garage” to seeing who could flare their nostrils. From endless contortions of our noses we then moved to making fish lips. A few times we would try to get back to reading, but I had already lost them :)!!! Once the boys moved from fish lips, they moved to making noises, and I don’t need to mention which bodily function they were imitating! Oddly though, it is much more relaxing to eat dinner with the boys than it is with the girls. I think it's because the boys are better at letting only 3 people talk at once, rather than the 6 simultaneous questions I get from the girls!
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