haiti

after the earthquake happened in haiti a week ago, i'm completely ashamed to admit that i did absolutely nothing. i don't know why, but it wasn't like last time, when an earthquake devastated the area around sichuan and i literally organized an entire community garage sale. during those weeks, i scoured the news daily, reading every article i could, learning about, hurting for, these people. this time, though...for some reason...i don't know if i felt busy with school, or was too preoccupied with my own selfishness - i don't know what it was, but the compassion and caring i prided myself on that year was missing.

but there came an opportunity for me to take action. penn for unicef has a campaign going on where if you donate a dollar, you can sign a petition. the goal is to get 1000 signatures on the petition, because IF we're able to - which i really hope we are - there are penn professors who have pledged to donate at least $20 (some have even pledged $200!) to haiti.

so as part of it, i just went up and down the four floors of kings court (someone else is covering part of english house later). i was so pleasantly surprised by how eager and willing people were to donate to haiti. although i suppose i shouldn't have been that surprised. i was probably just extra surprised because of the not eager way i personally reacted to it.

anyway, it is really heart-warming to see people so enthusiastically donate and sign the petition for haiti. obviously, it's hard not to have heard about such a sad event happening on such an enormous scale, but while a dollar seems so little to some of us, it is precisely the thought, the action, the wanting to help others that's gonna go such a long way for humanity. HURRAY!!

so...thank you to the wonderful people who donated money or signed the petition. :) :) :) :) :)

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