Here's Cairan story. We watched Oprah's primetime show on opening the school in South Africa. I had already watched it and wanted my boys to watch it. Not to see how great Oprah is, but to see the stories of those amazing girls and how life can be much different than the life they know. It certainly had a profound affect on Cairan. He had a hard time controlling his emotions....I refer to it as an overabundance of empathy. He looked up at me through his tear stained face and said, "I just want to do something!" Oh, how I know the feeling. Wanting to make a difference in a big world but feeling so small. We worked through all of the emotions and he decided that he wanted to sleep on the floor "to know how that girl felt". And so he did. I am convinced that he is going to "do something" one day!

From Cry the Beloved Country
"My friend, your anxiety turned to fear and your fear turned to sorrow. But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich....Fear is a journey, but sorrow at least is an arriving...when a storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house...but when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house."

Another great Alek story......
Alek attends a mermaid party at which he is the only boy. As they are cutting the cake, Alek looks that mermaid cake up and down and says, "I want a breast".
He's 5!!!

ONLY IN INDIA ! CRAZY STUFF ! INSANE !

this is watsup... the worst traffic you could say... but see how the traffic keeps moving without an accident. -> www.be-dumb.com Right now, this is what life feels like!

In an attempt to get out of going to school:

Alek says: I love you more than school.
So I say: I love you more than light sabers.
He says: I love you more than movies.
I say: I love you more than legos
He says: I love you more than pizza and ice cream.
I say: I love you more than Peanut Butter and Chocolate!

I win!