March 28, 2007

I am sitting here reflecting on my day. This is going to be short because I don't have my laptop and I want to sleep. Today I found out that I have ring worm – oh joy! I got it from the kid's at the orphanage. It is not an actual worm, it is just a fungus that makes your skin bubble up in a ring. I have to use a cream and it will probably leave a scar – sweet! Since I don't know have much time I am going to list what I did today:

- had lunch on coast (baloney on white bread)
- spent day on beach (couldn't swim) but apparently there are salt water crocodiles – eek!
- drove to principal's house
- watched brother bear 2
- ate b-day cake for Elena

- drove to school
- set up beds in room (open locker room with gate doors) – joint washrooms with boys and girls because they couldn't get the boys open, foam beds, small room, rats downstairs (where the boys slept), bugs
- showered with hose – awesome! Felt like a head massage or getting your hair washed at a hairdresser, twas amazing.
- early wake up tomorrow

Today I moved past a fear. While we were on the beach, there was a man who was clearly not with it hovering near us. It was obvious that he was waiting for us to slip up and leave our valuables near a place where he could snatch it and run. He traveled from one garbage can to the other, eating the remains of someones lunch, then moving to the other. He would stare at our stuff from afar. I had some cookies left that I didn't want anymore, so I asked Mr.K if it was a good/safe idea to give this man my food. Well Mr.K was super excited and he told me to just toss it to him. Well when I approached the man, he seemed not to understand me, and just kept on walking. So I left my cookies on the bench. Immediately as I walked away Mr. K tells me to turn around and I see the man walking away with my cookies. Mr. K was telling me that the man is rejected by all of society. He is not even a human being anymore. He is a creature to be avoided. Well later on that day when I found out I had ringworm and that it was contagious, I had a taste of what that man might feel. Everyone just got freaked out, and they didn't mean to, but it really hurt my feelings because I felt people were trying to get away from me. Even if they just made jokes about it, I felt really sad. This is also probably how the children at the orphanage feel sometimes too, so I shouldn't be upset that I got close to them. Even if it did give me ringworm, at least I treated them like human beings, and I think it made a difference.