23 Feb.2007
I can't believe that I spent half a year travelling with my nine year old son to so many different places.
Within 6 months ( Sept 2006 to Feb. 2007), we have been to 10 places. We went to Hong Kong, Shanghai, Guilin, Xian, Beijing, Sanya, Dalian, Zhouzhuang (a river town near Shanghai) and Cambodia. We reached the peak of Mountain Hua, the most dangerous mountain in China.
It has been such a great experience.
The 9 year old observed the life of poor people in Cambidia and see how simple life can be. He realised the local girls have no money to buy shampoo,we saved all our hotel bath room supply for the little girls he meet all the way, he donated all the money he got by selling rubbish ( RMB 50 Yuan) in past 6 months at home to the Children Hospital in Angkor, Cambodia.
I brought ten bronze Budda figures from a man with only one leg near one of the old temples we visited, I said to Don Don that I bought those figures not for the value but to help handicap people like this man. He lost one leg when he was young. He did nothing wrong but he has to suffer all his life. The poor man has to sell those Budda figures for his family to survive.
I was so glad that Don Don was attracted not only by the beauty of the budda and old temples in Angkor but also or even more by the people who live there. He will never forget the happy eyes of the little girls that got shampoo from him.
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