Desmond "far far away"

  I've just gotten back to the ship after visiting the Cheshire Home children's school and orphanage. There weren't too many children there today, just a few who attend the local school, but of course they're just adorable, wanting to help and getting in the way of the swinging mallets at inauspicious moments. Some of the children had been taken on holiday, how nice.

  A team of 11 of us went to lay down a pathway from the school's existing sidewalk to the tiny soccer field, so that the school's handicapped children can make it down. This entailed digging ditches down the path, breaking huge rocks with mallets down into softball-sized rock and spreading it out. We'll go back in a few week's time and lay the concrete down.

  I wimped out before the end, several week's of no exercise rearing its ugly head and quite frankly never sat pickin' rock before. I sat in the shade talking to some of the girls there. One girl kept asking for us to take her little boy "far far away". A sweet little thing named Desmond, apparently named after a famous Nigerian actor. One of the girls on the team said that this is a fairly common occurrance actually, to be asked to take children away from here. Breaks your heart. Shame, such a tiny little thing. Darn immigration :-) Ruins all the fun :-)