the science of realization

(from the previous post: the base of the staircase was by a door. A student walked in late, and I asked her to hand me my notebook. Fortunately, she cooperated.)

I just finished watching a movie about prostitution of 10-12 year old girls in Thailand. It's a movie for my international development class, and we had to write a paper about how it inspired us. I felt really cheesy writing it, but really what these people need is love! The people that were trying to keep their girls out of the prostitution industry kept saying, "We love our daughters! We would rather live in poverty than turn our children over to a business like that." And to underscore that point, there was a clip of a man holding his daughter's hand. Thai people don't believe in physical affection in public. They just don't do it. They don't tell you that in the video either. Rob taught me that when he commented how nice it was to see Chinese couples show even slight physical affection. This man was sitting with his daughter outside the school waiting for it to start. And he, ever so lightly, to still not offend his culture, held her hand. He loves her! I was so inspired to drop everything and move to one of these countries! Of course, the reality set in of needing to learn some languages and maybe have an idea of what I can do there, but still...
It's the thought that counts.

The LRC rooms are great places to watch movies. You can sob and nobody has to worry that you need to be comforted.