Day 5

Sunday is a great day! Holiday, family day, shopping day, fun day… To me, this Sunday is the most meaningful Sunday in my life, or at least I can see a new chapter written in my life as I never get so close to someone else other than my family members. (|| ß This close)

I am supposed to work in the gardening team or help building the cow shed in a children shelter based on my body size but I end up being a bear with the kids. I think it is easier to work with the kids, at least I won’t sweat like a pig under the sun gardening or working on the cow shed, I AM WRONG!!! I end up sweating like a pig all the same…

I am skeptical at first when we are introduced to the kids. Since “Xin Chao” and “Tam Biet” are the only Vietnamese that I know, I am worried that I won’t be able to communicate with the kids. After warming up with the kids, Hoai and I finally got the connection and we start to play the ‘superman’ game with kids. It is so much fun! Martha is trying so hard but all she get in the end is to hug a baby (which seemed doesn’t know about the fear of Caucasian like other kids having… lol).

In the afternoon we have lunch together with Blue Dreams volunteers and after that, it is the most unforgettable moment for the whole project. I get connected too close with one kid who touches me so much! All I have done for him is to hug and play with him and he gets so happy even by just some simple hugs. Til a point when Daniel comes up and asks for his name, well, he doesn’t want to share that but I get his name afterwards. It is a little secret that I do not want to share.

In the late afternoon all of us are leaving to visit the SEALNet Cow. He cries. The boy cries when I am leaving… and I cry. Think about it, all I have done is just spending one morning playing with him, walking into his simple life and now I am leaving. Just one morning is enough to stay connected heart to heart with him. It is so hard for me. Thinking about all that I have compared to his, I am so fortunate. I wish I can do more than that for him. I wish I can come back and spend more time with him other than just paying a visit in his life. I am falling apart…

Next few hours we spend the time climbing the ‘Black Lady’ mountain but I am speechless and staying emotionally unstable. I cannot get the picture of the kid out of my head. When we reach the top of the mountain, brightness strikes me. I am determined. I will come back for him…

– Boon Ming the Bear

P.S. from the editor, pictures coming soon!