Clean Water

Please join change.org's Blog Action Day and spread the word and discussion about the need to provide clean water to the over 1 billion people living in the world who don't have access to clean water.  Let's put our minds together and help the dream of providing the world's poorest people with a basic necessity that the majority of us take for granted a reality.  I can't think of a better cause to get involved in at the moment.  think of all of the possibilities that could easily become a reality if disadvantaged people had this basic necessity.  Join me and help support the UN in this cause.

Missing friend

On May 1, 2008 a close friend committed suicide.  I don't even know what drove her to make a decision such as this one.  She had lost her job as a gynocologist a few months before I met her in May of 2007.  One thing I would like to say about her is that she loved her country.  I was attending the Goethe Institute as part of a summer study abroad program when we met.  It quickly became a routine where we would have a breakfast of bread, fruit and cheese before I ran off to class, then in the afternoons, we would have lunch together and talk about where we wanted to go.  She was so great about taking me places that I would not have otherwise seen.  Stolpen, Sächsische Schweiz , Pillnitz and Chemnitz just to name a few.  On the way to where ever we were going she would tell me the history behind what we were about to see.  It was so interesting to me.  One day we went to the German Hygene Museum to see an expedition called "Deadly Medicine"  it was about the experiments the Nazi's performed on people.  We both were teary eyed when we left.  For me, it was the most wonderful summer of my life.  Exploring Saxony, Germany with someone who was just as excited about the history as I was.  I made a promise to her that I would return as soon as possible.  As soon as possible wasn't soon enough for her.  I would just like to say "Thank you" to her for sharing her time and love for her country with me.  I miss her dearly.