Monthly Archives: 7月 2010
In WCJ travel means traaavel
10 hours, 23 minutes and a few seconds, oh yes! when we say travel, we mean it. We said goodbye to our wonderful host families in Omura, got in the bus and started our long trip to the city of Uda in Nara prefecture and about an hour away from Nara City, home of Todaiji Temple where Big Budda is located (We will talk about our visit there in the next posts).
More than 10 hours to get there, 10 hours to sleep, sing, get to know each other, eat, sleep, watch movies, sleep some more and most of all, spend quality time with each other.
Uda City, here we come!
What you see is what you get
Fureai Event was celebrating 10 years. It was the year 2000 when they started with this amazing celebration for physically and mentally handicap people.
When World Campus – Japan Participants crossed those doors we could already feel the positive energy in the air, around 400 handicap people and about 200 volunteers helping to make that afternoon, the best one ever for them, at the end ended up not being the best only for them but also for all of us volunteering.
Age or language were not important, just giving yourself like they do to everyone. What you see is what you get, nothing less, nothing more, they give themselves exactly as they are, honest and free. That day we learned
from handicap people how to be truly genuine, best lesson ever.
