It has been really busy over the last month and I haven't been able to write about a lot of things that I would have liked to. I had planned a blog about Tarana's experimentation with new words, such as truth, that she doesn't really comprehend. She recently said 'I bumped my head at night and the truth came out'! I have been meaning to put up pictures from a great weekend holiday we had at a farm where 2 year old J milked the cows, chased the donkeys and rode horses while T stayed in her comfort zone and fed ducks and turkeys, rode the donkey cart and lazed in a plunge pool.
What has finally forced me out of my laziness to write was a meeting last week with an absolutely inspirational woman in her 20's. We got a message from an old colleague that R and I worked with in Delhi saying that her daughter, T, was in Nairobi for a bit. So we got in touch with T and had her over for dinner.
T has been travelling around the world since May last year and has 10 more months of travelling left - a few more countries in Africa, then the Middle East, South America and North America. She basically felt that she wanted to do something interesting and decided to travel the world. It's not just the vibrant sights, flavours and cultures that she is out to experience - she also has a mission.
What energised me the most after meeting her was how extremely positive she was about her experiences and human generosity in general. Of course travelling for 8 months means that she has been robbed of all her belongings in a particular city and violently attacked in another. However, these aren't the stories one hears easily from T. Instead what she loves talking about is the woman who nursed her back to health in Indonesia when she was extremely unwell, the family of a Congolese she met in South Africa that turned up at the airport with a signboard to receive her, how people went out of their way to help when she lost her passport and money, how she learnt to drink vodka the Polish way with couple she just met, who then invited her home for a traditional meal.
If only more youngsters would travel the world, lose their blinkers, discover faith in humanity or just enjoy life away from the rat race.
What has finally forced me out of my laziness to write was a meeting last week with an absolutely inspirational woman in her 20's. We got a message from an old colleague that R and I worked with in Delhi saying that her daughter, T, was in Nairobi for a bit. So we got in touch with T and had her over for dinner.
T has been travelling around the world since May last year and has 10 more months of travelling left - a few more countries in Africa, then the Middle East, South America and North America. She basically felt that she wanted to do something interesting and decided to travel the world. It's not just the vibrant sights, flavours and cultures that she is out to experience - she also has a mission.
In every city, town or village that she visits she gets in touch with civil society groups or self help movements that are committed to working with the less privileged. She spends time understanding their work and the person or people behind these groups and movements, and is capturing the 100 most inspiring stories on her website - http://100heroesproject.com/
What energised me the most after meeting her was how extremely positive she was about her experiences and human generosity in general. Of course travelling for 8 months means that she has been robbed of all her belongings in a particular city and violently attacked in another. However, these aren't the stories one hears easily from T. Instead what she loves talking about is the woman who nursed her back to health in Indonesia when she was extremely unwell, the family of a Congolese she met in South Africa that turned up at the airport with a signboard to receive her, how people went out of their way to help when she lost her passport and money, how she learnt to drink vodka the Polish way with couple she just met, who then invited her home for a traditional meal.
If only more youngsters would travel the world, lose their blinkers, discover faith in humanity or just enjoy life away from the rat race.
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