Hello,

I can’t believe that three months have passed so quickly. This journey for me has not ended, but has only just begun.

to my friends in Hanoi at the Dragonfly that welcomed me my first night alone…
to the street vendors in Hanoi that fed me many late evenings…
to the kids from the village tribes in Sapa and the girls feeding me rice wine….
to the man that got so excited when I bought $10 on a pair of pants from him…
to the families running from the dirt roads in Hoi An to greet me on my motorbike….
to my friend selling pineapples on the beach and the lady that reminded me of Grandma…
to the hotel workers sleeping on the floors in the reception area…
to the boy teaching me Vietnamese at the home stay in the Mekong Delta…
to the lady that stopped the guard from hitting the kids at the Cambodia border crossing…
to the kids flying kites at the Cambodian border….
to the kids full of hugs and wanting to hold my hand at the Centre for Children’s Happiness…
to the kids at the dump that would look me straight in the eye…
to the CCH kids that taught me to play Cambodian games…
to my CCH family that sang the whole way back from our trip to the beach (I wish time would have stopped right then)…
to the kids that had to push the CCH van to get it started…
to the people playing games all around the streets of Cambodia…
to the kids from the Phnom Penh orphanage that danced with me at river side…
to the kids from my “Yellow Class” at the Green Gecko project in Siem Reap…
to my friend Mr Moon that told me his life story…
to the many kids I met living and sleeping on the streets in Siem Reap…
to the girls at the restaurant in Siem Reap that sat with me many evenings…
to the man that I met me on the road that brought me to the School for Children of Poverty…
to the volunteers at the school that ate at the Pagoda so they could teach the children for free…
to the many inspiring people I met that have taken different paths in their life to help others…
to the children filling my small classroom at the School for Children of Poverty…
to the smiling faces all over this wonderful country…
to the family in Siem Reap that made me feel at home with them in their home…
to the kids at CCH that made me feel so loved and wanted…
and mostly….
to all the children that told me… “I’m doing fine, but with some sad.”
I say Thank You.
You are my Angels.
Goodbye for now.

Love Gerry