Amazing people all around...

It's moments like this when you realize that there are people in your life that you wish you had gotten a chance to know better. Especially when you receive a poignant, revealing and affirming email from their outpost in India. A woman I worked with this summer (a lovely woman) has taken a semester off from college to go and volunteer in India. She's working as an English teacher in various places throughout the fall/winter, but right now she's living in what sounds like a run-down house in the Himalayas with other people as lovely as her. They're teaching the children in the area at a one room school house that has very limited supplies due to the poverty in the area. The kids have trouble pronouncing her name and therefore call her "Pepsi." I thought that was a cute tidbit.

It's the everlasting human idea of "making a difference." And she's doing it! Right now as we speak on close to the other side of the world from me. I'm so proud to know her...and all of you too! (A side note to those of you going into or in education -- she discovered this summer that you can make a difference just with a smile. The benefits of being a teacher are many, including the feeling that, even on the bad days, someone's benefiting from you just being alive.)