Picture This: Getting Started

We just recently received our first pictures. It was truly an exciting moment to receive an email from Inner Mongolia, and seeing everyone's faces as we opened an email completely in Chinese. Luckily, we have a few members on our team who speak foreign languages, so it was no problem to read the contents and figure out how to download the file. The pictures were amazing. We saw food from across the globe: hot pots, octopus concoctions, and mats with tables low to the floor. Even though we're still waiting on the rest of the pictures, the first ones showed great promise and potential for the future of this project.

We've already made contact with a Russian orphanage, as well as some family members in Singapore. We know it'll be tough to orchestrate, but we think we may have as many as 15 contacts in other countries. And even though we will spend long days and cold winter nights assembling packages, printing pictures, and using miles of duct tape, it'll be worth it when we realize how much of difference we've made. This is what we daydream about during Algebra, what we think about before we go to sleep, and during each exhausting meeting. We try to nurture our ideas into something more than just an idea. Into something that can help our world and our generation and our future. No change is a small change. And we're loving every second of it. 

"When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way." -Wayne Dyer

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