{"id":67,"date":"2009-05-27T05:45:25","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T05:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.195.103.127\/cambodia\/2009\/05\/27\/one-in-a-million\/"},"modified":"2009-05-27T05:45:25","modified_gmt":"2009-05-27T05:45:25","slug":"one-in-a-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/cambodia\/2009\/05\/27\/one-in-a-million\/","title":{"rendered":"One in a Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Michele --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Michele\" src=\"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/cambodia\/michele.jpg\" width=\"90\" height=\"118\" align=\"left\"\/>What an amazing couple of days. We left the hospital yesterday afternoon, went to the &#8216;market&#8221; and shopped for the children at the Orphanage.  At their request,  we bought underwear, salt, sugar, fans  and cooking oil.  Then we made a stop to buy fruit, getting two &#8220;hairy eyeballs&#8221; for each child. The children are happy, cared for and well educated.  We spent time playing games, singing, and also, visiting the library and their rooms.  (Some were a little reluctant for us to see their room but with 5 girls to a room you can imagine!) What beautiful kids, and what a great concert they gave us.  The hard part was leaving, they begged us to stay, &#8216;please come tomorrow&#8217; and ran after the Tuk-Tuk as we went out of the gate; pictures that will remain with us for a long time.  These are the fortunate children of Cambodia-they are safe and get an education.<br \/>\nToday was a trip to the &#8216;killing fields&#8221;. To comprehend that much cruelty is beyond my capacity. The great learning from the trip: understanding the people we are working with at the hospital.  They lived through Pol Pot and have moved on with their life, now serving others on a daily basis. As I taught the supervisor class today, I had a whole new understanding of their job, their life and who they are as a people.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nWell I  have learned what it is to be a minority!  First, I am the &#8220;senior&#8221; member of the team (I bet you guessed that by the picture!). In this country, with 50% of the population under the age of 21, I am a definite minority in the age category!  Second, my skin in many shades lighter than 99.9% of the people I see each day. Third, in a population of over 14,000,000 people I have not seen more than 14 with &#8220;silver fox hair&#8217;, as a patient once described me.  Well, folks that makes me &#8220;one in a million&#8221;!  That alone was worth coming to Cambodia for!<br \/>\nOnce again, I want to thank the parents who sent their kids on this mission trip, they continue to be <strong>AWESOME<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What an amazing couple of days. We left the hospital yesterday afternoon, went to the &#8216;market&#8221; and shopped for the children at the Orphanage. At their request, we bought underwear, salt, sugar, fans and cooking oil. Then we made a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/cambodia\/2009\/05\/27\/one-in-a-million\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cambodia-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}