community service all over the world: its for the children.

So every Tuesday this semester, I participated in a service project for an organization called Unicef. Basically, every week, we met with this group of cute old Italian ladies, and we made dolls. Well we each made one doll, because it took FOREVER. It was so fun though. The ladies didn't speak any English, so we had to speak Italian to them, which was generally a super huge struggle, but also really fun.

ACTUALLY, on one of our last days, we witnessed a big fight, all in Italian, between a couple of the women. It was really entertaining, because of their animated voices and huge gestures, and I was completely entranced in their words, trying to understand what was going on. All in all, once the woman who initiated the argument finally stormed out and slammed the door (all while yelling "ci vediamo!" aka "see ya later/we will see each other"...quite the dramatic exit...not..hahahha), the older lady who's in charge happened to be standing next to me. She was discussing the argument with the lady I had been working with, and I was trying super hard to understand what they were saying because I'm really nosy and I love drama and gossip. I got the gist of what was going on, but I wanted to hear what they had to say about it. The lady in charge realized I was listening and looked at me and asked if I understood. I said kind of...and then she looked at me, and really slowly said "IL MONDO E' BELLO, PERCHE CAMBIA." Aka, the world is beautiful because it changes. And then she went on, in Italian to say that there are many different types of people, normal people, CRAZY PEOPLE, etc...hahahahahahaha. Basically, the world is beautiful because of all of the variety. I was dying.

Anyways here's the video about it, credit to Ian Lyons our IT guy at the Umbra Institute:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ-SAQyrX24&feature=player_embedded

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