Be Change

Some new pictures for you viewing enjoyment. The sunset and barge are both taken from our hostel, and the rest just around Freetown. Everywhere I go children run up to me and say "snap me snap me!" (take a picture, take a picture). It is very cute, though it makes it hard to get any candid shots. There is a huge cultural difference in where it is okay to take photos, so it has been hard getting good ones, or some of the ones I want. Make sure to check out the Chaska Herald this week for my first article, and in the coming weeks, as I'm already writing next weeks. Another huge thank you to Mollee Francisco, for helping make this possible. Make sure to tell your friends to check out the blog, and thanks for all of the comments!

As we start to really dig into our work it is getting much harder. It is really tough to see so many people suffering. One of the members of SWAASL (the AIDS society we are working with) is int he hospital and very sick. Between Monday and today you can see her literally just wasting away, losing all of her weight and energy. It is tough- very tough. We just meet so many amazing people who are in such tough positions. People who can't afford food for their families, who can't find work, who can't go to school or university, who are sick with AIDS, with malaria, with typhoid, people who abuse drugs and alcohol, people with mental illness and mental retardation... and I want to save them all. The problem is I can't. I can't save everyone that I meet, which breaks my heart. I can only do the best I can, small things with great love, right?