Indochina ... with a differenceWe're in Cambodia for a regional meeting. After our meeting this morning we all went to do volunteer work at a village school as a team building event.
Cuz of my broken foot, I went to the reading room to read to the kids while my colleagues built a fence with concrete poles and barbed wire.
The kids were like - shoving at each other to get to me and they kept bringing books to read to them. The books were seriously-old, English language kiddie books. Many of the kids didn't understand anything beyond "Hi" and 1-10 and maybe the first third of the alphabet.
But they totally wanted to just hang out and repeat what I was reading to them. One of the boys ... he was, maybe 7...was trying to hand gesture "hot" and started fanning me with a book. Broke my heart. I almost started crying. A kid in a developed country would be too busy watching TV or playing X Box to want to do anything like that.
1 comment:
you are a constant source of inspiration - the feet! can't wait to hear more about Cambodia...also Paul Taylor is coming to NYC. (check out my new blog)
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