i didn't go home the other day... and i didn't get anything done... i'm an over achiever i leave for turkey one week from today... weird i'm going to go make chocolate chip cookies for impact tomorrow night...being there is pretty much my favorite part of the week... my heart is still broken over the wars going on right now (or should i say the ones that have ended..)... where are we in all of this? where were we when 1500 were being killed and over 5000 injured? where are we in the congo with 45,000 people being killed every month? their death rate almost matches the entire holocaust (and in 2007 half of the deaths were children under the age of 5)... i mean, the war is over so the killers are preventable diseases and starvation.. where are we?... where am i?... i wish i could be there.. i wish i could do something... i wish i knew more... *..i feel so ignorant on what goes on in the world around me..* "All the way to grandma's house, I stayed on the narrow path but my brother wandered off, deep into the woods. Bitten twice by rattle snakes, tangled up in poison oak, he fell down and broke his legs, into a great ravine. When I arrived at grandma's house, she had made us tea and cake. She asked me where my brother was, and I said I don't know and ate." -Pedro the Lion "Congo is one of 11 countries where 20% of children die before the age of five, according to a Unicef report released yesterday. A child born in Sierra Leone has the lowest chance of surviving until the age of five. The report, the State of the World's Children, says nearly 9.7 million children under five died worldwide last year from disease or lack of food." Chris McGreal in Johannesburg The Guardian, Wednesday 23 January 2008 | 
