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handwriter

handwriter

Norway

October 17, 2008

Do you know why, even in pouring rain being soaked to the bone do I continue to walk the daily two-hour walk to the little classroom that I teach English in even knowing that if any of the students will show up that it will only be one or two out of maybe 100 who will bother to come?  It is because of the one or two who do show up.  Together now for the past two months, we have had to sit and wring our socks out before starting class.  We hang our socks up knowing full well that they won’t be dry before we head back for our perspective homes. Of those kids who make it to class, they are those with out parents.  They live in a tiny little, rundown building that was haphazardly set up to house orphans.  Now, I don’t want to try and solicit empathy for me or for them – we don’t need it nor do we want it.  I am just simply trying to make a point that those who really want something better for themselves out of this life are many times those who have nothing.  It is the poor and the really needy who seem to at one point in their lives decide that they don’t want to lie with their bellies “sucking mud” anymore.  They want more - really needing more - so they get up and they “get it!”

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