So all yesterday I was feeling better and better now with a good night sleep I´m 100%! But I´ve had a really amazing week besides that interruption. I went to a wedding. It was quite the experience. The two families got in a bit of a tiff so the whole thing was kind of a bust but something good did come out of it, tho I feel bad for the families.
I ended up sitting next to this little girl who was obviously very bored and struck up a conversation. I felt that this girl was important so I gave her a pack of crayons that I had been saving for just such an occasion. (I´m been stashing a bag of small toys for the kids I meet along the way). After I gave her some paper she drew this amazing picture and she´s only nine! The girl is very talkative, to say the least, and you can just see how intelligent she is.
So what I was doing the day I got ill, was shopping for some school supplies for her. I spent a grand total of maybe 4-5 dollars. The family was so grateful. Turns out the girl is adopted...the father threw the biological mother out of the house when she was pregnant, the biological mother, apparently a little crazy or perhaps just at wits end, left Rosa at some place where Rosa´s mother found her. Recently the family has been dealt another blow, the father has died so now it is just the mother, Rosa and her brother. They struggle to put food on the table with the revenue from their tiny two-table restaurant, much less worry about school supplies.
So I guess the reason I am writing this is to see if any of my readers wanted an easy way to help out. A gift of $5 goes so extremely far down here. You could drop it off with my mother or if someone in Laramie wants to volunteer to collect the money I can give you info of what to do to get the money to me easily in a more private manner than on my public blog haha. I´ll then go buy these kids enough school supplies to last all year.
I just write this because it is a situation where just a little money can make such a huge difference in a childs life (two childs lives actually...I initially gave Rosa a pack of crayons and a toy frog, she immediately gave the frog to her brother because ¨she has the crayons¨). Rosa has such potential, it breaks my heart to see any of it wasted. Anyway, keep Rosa in your thoughts and send her your love!
PS I´ll get a good picture of her and post it later.
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I think you are such a sweet guy. Rosa sounds like a briliant girl. I wish i had the money to help you, help her. but im trying to buy my own school supplies.. and diapers. Rosa and her family are in my prayers, and i promise when i get a PhD i will make it a point to find a way to get school supplies to children who are less fournunate... kudos Adam. Im pround of you.
ReplyDeleteSo heartfelt,see your FB.
ReplyDeleteAdam where are you? We miss your posts. There is nothing good to read on the internet except Tierra del Fuego or Bust.
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