Happy Times
Can you outline one of the happiest moments over there?
I met an amazing man named Alexandre Nhamilando (Alex) while I was in Mozambique. He is a World Vision employee in a rural area in Tete, whose job it is to translate letters to and from sponsored children and their sponsors. He accompanied us everywhere we went while we were in Tete and acted as our translator. Some of the happiest times I had were times spent with Alex. He has an amazing life story to tell, which is great because he loves to talk. We had some really happy times together, learning equally from each other. After we returned home, Alex was flown to Australia with another Mozambique World Vision employee to visit each Australian state and speak at youth conventions. Alex’s last stop was Perth before flying back to Mozambique, and he stayed at my house with my parents for a weekend. It was the most surreal feeling to know that there is
an authentic African man, on his first trip to Australia, staying in your guest bedroom! We tried to show him all the sights during his short time here, and I don’t know who enjoyed the stay more: Alex or me. We still keep in regular contact now through letters, emails and phone calls, although Alex refuses to understand the time difference and continues to wake the whole family up at 3am :-).
October 24th, 2009 at 6:10 am
Una de las aficiones del señor Miyagi, aparte de dar forma a bonsais, consistía en tratar de atrapar moscar con unos palillos chinos, esta actividad, un poco rara, está al alcance de muy pocos debido a la cualidades necesarias: