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A Touching Experience
My favorite part of the trip was the people that we met. Everywhere we went people would stop what they were doing to look up and wave. They were so kind and happy all the time, when you looked at them it just made you smile as well. The children were amazing too. When we would ride by on our bikes they would come out laughing and skipping, and they always wanted to touch our skin. They would run alongside our bike for two and three miles at a time and they never got tired.
Have you visited a country where your skin color is in the minority? Was that a positive experience or a negative one? How did you feel?
| September 5th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
We recently went to the Dominican Republic with Vitamin Angels. Visiting the poor villages was an amazing experience. In one village the children surrounded us and kept touching us. They were both curious and admiring. In our culture that level of intimacy would have felt inappropriate, but there it felt totally natural.
| September 7th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
i know what you mean. In Rwanda everywhere we went people were always hugging us. They werent afraid to to touch us, and that was nice for a change and a big contrast from most Amaricans.