[Mad4stevie]

I would highly recommend that everyone do some volunteer work at one time or another! The best part is that you really feel like you are helping people have a better life in this kind of situation. I mean, they never had running water before our group came to town. They would go to the river and fill these large containers and then carry them back home on their head! It was like National Geographic right in front of my face!

In a third-world culture such as this, children take pleasure in such small ways. The kids there are like sponges - they watch everything that you do and are amazed by it. I befriended one little girl in the village and I remember when I accidentally dropped a penny on the ground. She picked it up for me and when I told her she could keep it, you would have thought that she won the lottery! It really was like seeing the world in a different way.

The recent mention of how a water buffalo (they called it a cow on the news) was on the airport runway and stopped traffic for the aid workers, was so typical of what occurs other there! Those "cows" generally are free range animals and wander all over creation!