I love this photo of Rachael laughing so hard she's covered her mouth! That picture and the following pictures are from a great game night in Minnesota a few weeks ago.
Peter and Kelly -- we met at their house. Peter had dinner with us and came at the end to finish out the games with us, not very usual since it's typically just the ladies, but very nice.
Joy laughing -- looking like her name would indicate.
A more staid view of Joy and Rachael.I went to a great undergraduate school, Macalester College. Twelve percent of the students were international students, and the social climate was fascinating. In fact, The Princeton Review just named Macalester the school most accepting of its gay community.
Lots of people from Macalester seem to go off to work for NGOs. A recent grad was profiled after working for a year with the International Rescue Committee in the Democratic Republic of Congo. She is an very international person herself, being Cambodian but born and raised in France. She wrote of her experience: "The government still relies on NGOs to do the work. I wonder whether they understand that the responsibility should eventually fall on them, rather than on the NGOs, to pay the teachers, build the roads, and rehabilitate the facilities. Is our work here truly helpful, or are we creating a dependency situation in which the government no longer feels responsible for its people?"
Stay tuned to this blog to read about "help without handouts, food without food lines, life without humiliation" (taken from the LifeWind International website, www.lifewind.org).
