The Pronino Foundation

With Thanksgiving quickly appoaching, I have been giving great thought to everyone and everything in my life that I have to be grateful for (as cliche as that may sound). And as I count my numerous blessings, I frequently think about the street kids who forever touched my life in Honduras. About one and a half years ago, I traveled to Honduras with my university to The Pronino Foundation, an orphanage that has been organized to take children as young as three or four years old off the streets. Nearly all of the children living at Pronino have, at some point, been involved with gangs, drugs, abuse, or a combination of all three. The story of every boy there is really nothing short of a miracle. They have experienced more suffering than you or I can imagine, yet these kids are now the happiest, most thankful people I have ever met--all because of Pronino. Their resiliency is absolutely admirable; their joy for life is something that we should all be striving for on a daily basis.

It's my hope that all of the boys I met in Honduras will someday be able to go out on their own, land a successful job, and continually spread more of the same love and kindness that they showed me. As such, I strongly urge anyone out there in the blogspot world who wants to make a charitable donation this holiday season to consider Pronino. I can promise you that the boys there will genuinely appreciate it.

http://www.pronino.org/default.aspx

London from A-Z

ABBEY ROAD airports BEATLES big ben BRITISH ACCENTS british museum BUCKINGHAM PALACE bus route 27 CAMDEN cavalier arms CHANGING OF THE GUARDS chinatown CIDER dicken's tavern DOUBLE DECKER BUS elephant castle EMILY THE TOUR GUIDE fish and chips GHANDI STATUE harrod's HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT hyde park IPOD MUSIC COURTESY OF GRIFFIN j.k. rowling KING'S CROSS let it be LONDON BRIDGE millennium bridge NATIONAL GALLERY oxford circus PADDINGTON peter pan PICADILLY CIRCUS platform 9 3/4 POUNDS AND PENCE pubs QUEEN ELIZABETH II rain ROSES rubbish SAINT PAUL'S CATHEDRAL shakespeare's globe theater SHERLOCK HOLMES' RESTAURANT tea TELEPHONE BOOTHS thames river TOWER BRIDGE tube UMBRELLA victoria station WALKS IN THE PARK window shopping X-AMINATION OF MAPS yellow submarines ZZZ'S THE WHOLE WAY HOME.

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

Hello my Jolly Good Friends!
This evening we leave for London for our long weekend and I am beside myself with excitement. I have wanted to visit this city since the days I obsessed over "Peter Pan," "The Parent Trap," and "What a Girl Wants."

This week, I have been incessantly listening to the Beatles, U2 (technically from Dublin but pretty close to Great Britain), and even some Elton John just to get ready. You should also know that a few of us have lately made up this wonderful game in which we quote the Beatles whenever possible. My favorite phrase as of yesterday is "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds."

Just imagine all the stories I'll have to tell when I return!